The human remains exhumed during the excavations form only a small part of the number of bodies buried here and they cannot be considered to give an exact image of the population as a whole. However, their study does provide us with information on their life expectancy, fertility, death rate, the type of community from which they came, etc.

Therefore, the study of the anthropological remains found in the Early-Christian Necropolis has provided us with a great deal of data about the physical characteristics of the population of Tarragona at the time. We can see that the people of Tarraco were generally quite short, measuring somewhat less than the average for the time (165 cm. for men and 154 cm. for women) and were predominately of Mediterranean typology.

Also, although epitaphs are not a substitute for a modern register of deaths, the many pagan and Christian inscriptions recovered at the site provide us with very interesting data about the population of Tarraco, their social conditions and their life expectancy at the time.

During the high-Imperial period many of the citizens belonged to the Galeria tribe. There are numerous inscriptions referring to freedmen and to immigrants from the eastern provinces of the Empire and the interior of Hispania. There were also contacts with Greece, as is shown by the large number of inscriptions in Greek found in the Necropolis.