Excavating Nauvoo
Subtitle: the Mormons and the rise of historical archaeology in America
By: Benjamin C. Pykles ; foreword by Robert L. Schuyler.
Series: Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803218932
Subjects: Mormons -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Illinois -- Nauvoo; Historic preservation -- Illinois -- Nauvoo; Archaeology and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Nauvoo (Ill.) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of the restoration of Nauvoo; title: The rise of Nauvoo Restoration, Inc.; title: Interpretive conflict at Nauvoo; title: Historical archaeology at Nauvoo; title: The Nauvoo excavations and the development of historical archaeology in America; title: Chronology of Nauvoo excavations.