The phrase “Black Death mass burial site” tends to evoke images of haphazard piles of diseased deceased like the “bring out your dead” Monty Python scene.
But Hendrik Poinar, anthropology professor at McMaster University, said the East Smithfield graveyard in London, a mass burial site that dates back to the height of the bubonic plague pandemic, is the exact opposite. “Each individual is buried very carefully and meticulously and with tremendous care and precision.”