Introduction The African Burial Ground project commenced in 1991 under the funding of the General Services Agency (GSA). This occurred when the employees with an assignment of commissioning an excavation meant for a new structure (federal office building) exposed the skeletal remains of the first of the more than 400 children, men and women. Another study established that there was the mass burying of enslaved Africans (in the the17th and 18th centuries) in lower Manhattan and this took place in a piece of land sized 6.6 acres. The cemetery remained covered with landfills over the decades (Hansen & McGowan, 1998). Through the proper management of the General Service Agency, this project has emerged as a clear testimony of both the positive as well as the collaborative partnership witnessed between the diverse parties that were involved including the African American community, Howard University among others. Currently, the site is a national monument that features a unique memorial that commemorates and communicates the story behind African Burial Ground which is the only historic urban archeological project that has been undertaken in the US. The site has continued to attract many people who seek to dig the history attached to this national monument (Hansen & McGowan, 1998). DNA research This was carried out by combining DNA with the available historical data, the morphology as well as the cranial metrics in an effort of establishing the true origin of these people. In order to carry out research that was more accurate and approximate, the need to apply more comparative data particularly from Central Africa was inevitable. Though the study had limited funds the researchers managed to move forward with the DNA pilot study. The analysis that was done was more sophisticated as compared to those done in a similar bio-archeological research situation. More stories concerning Africans were told a thing that was very instrumental in the restoring of the cemetery into a sacred field (Kris, 2005). Number of people who worked on the project Researchers have never agreed on the actual number of employees who worked on this project. It is approximated that there could have been 70-80 people that worked in the Howard Skeletal Biology lab at one time or the other and the part-time students that participated actively in the project. There were also those people who did the excavation at the site. The project took in many undergraduate or graduates, who worked on the Burial Ground, some have finished their Ph. Ds while holding positions in this project with others compiling reports on the same project. The researchers who started at the undergraduate level or the graduate level had the responsibilities of doing the technical tasks like piecing bone fragments together and later on were involved in writing statistics. Some of the students decided to pursue African-American archeology due to the exposure they had at the burial ground ( Hansen & McGowan, 1998). Unique study cases There were unique cases in a study like the 101s case that was believed to be a man who should have been between 26 and 35 years of age with the skull shape suggesting that he could have been from West Africa. But there was a contradiction in his chemical data. Str