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John Beach Rinaldo: Quintessential Culture Historian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Stephen E. Nash
Stephen E. Nash*
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Department of Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205 ([email protected])
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Abstract

During an archaeological career that spanned four decades, John Beach Rinaldo (1912-1999) made substantive contributions to the delineation and definition of the Mogollon Culture, the culture history of west-central New Mexico and east-central Arizona, and the identification of material relationships between precolumbian cultures and modern-day Zuni. For a variety of reasons, Rinaldo is overshadowed by his Field Museum collaborator Paul Sidney Martin. As a result, historians of archaeology have failed to critically evaluate Rinaldo's career and contributions. This paper offers a controlled analysis and comparison of data in unpublished archives, artifact collections at the Field Museum, and the published record to illuminate previously unrecognized but important aspects of Rinaldo's many contributions to archaeological knowledge, method, and theory.

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Durante una carrera arqueόlogica que abarcό cuatro décadas, John Beach Rinaldo (1912–1999) hizo aportaciones sustantivas a la delineaciόn y definicién de la Cultura Mogollon, la historia de la cultura del centro-oeste de Nuevo México y Arizona centro-este y la identificacién de relaciones materiales entre las culturas precolombinas y Zuni actual. Para una variedad de razones, Rinaldo es eclipsada por su colaborador Paul Sidney Martin del Museo Field. Como resultado, los historiadores de la arqueologίa no nan podido evaluar crίticamente la carrera y las contribuciones de Rinaldo. Este documento presenta un análisis controlado y comparaciόn de datos en archivos inéditos, colecciones de artefactos en el Museo Field, y las actas publicadas previamente no reconocidos para iluminar aspectos importantes de las muchas contribuciones de Rinaldo a la disciplina de la arqueologίa.

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American Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 3 , July 2015 , pp. 571 - 589
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 2015

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