Dubuque's Forgotten Cemetery
Excavating a Nineteenth-Century Burial Ground in a Twenty-first Century City
Published on 15. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-60938-321-3 (ISBN)
Description
Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Weaving together science, history, and local mythology, the tale of the Third Street Cemetery provides a fascinating glimpse into Dubuque's early years, the hardships its settlers endured, and the difficulties they did not survive.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
10 black & white photographs, 6 maps, 2 drawings
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-321-3 (9781609383213)
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Lillie Robin M. Lillie | Mack Jennifer E. Mack
Dubuque's Forgotten Cemetery
Excavating a Nineteenth-Century Burial Ground in a Twenty-first Century City
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03/2015
University Of Iowa Press
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Robin M. Lillie has worked as skeletal biologist for the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist Burials Program since 1989. Her primary responsibilities are the analysis of prehistoric human skeletal remains and assisting the Burials Program Director with the protection of Iowa's ancient burials. Her interest in human skeletal remains began in graduate school, when she had the opportunity to work on forensic cases with her thesis professor. She served as project manager and on-site director for the excavations at the Third Street Cemetery in Dubuque, Iowa, and directed all laboratory analysis for the project. She has lived in Iowa City since 1989 and has three adult children. Jennifer E. Mack has been working in the field of archaeology for more than fifteen years. She has participated in excavations across the United States, as well as in Ireland, Germany, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. Her lifelong interest in burial grounds began with her childhood explorations of cemeteries like St. Michael's and St. John's in her hometown of Pensacola, Florida. Though she is happy digging any kind of site, she specializes in excavating and researching historic American graveyards. Human osteology is her other vocation. While at the University of Iowa, she analyzed human remains from Bolores, a Neolithic rock-cut tomb in Portugal, as well as the materials from the Third Street Cemetery. When not working on projects elsewhere, Jennifer still lives in Pensacola.