Dr. John B. Rinaldo, Assistant Curator of Archaeology, shows pottery recovered 

 in 1956 by our Southwest Archaeological Expedition to guests on Members' Night. 



related to a pottery made by the Zuni Indians, also in historic times. 

 We are now of the opinion that the great flowering of the Hopi and 

 Zuni cultures in the 13th to 15th centuries may have been generated 

 by diffusion from and stimulation by the peoples of the Little 

 Colorado Drainage and that these people were originally, in part, 

 at least, of Mogollon origin. If this be true, we shall have data 

 pertaining to a continuity of culture covering about 8,000 years — or 

 from Cochise times (about 7000 B.C.) down to a.d. 1540, the conquest 

 of the Hopi and Zuni Indians by the Spaniards. This long sequence 

 — one that would compare favorably with the long histories of 

 the Near East, Greece, and Rome — is of particular interest because 

 a mass of data is required for the study of any culture. 



Two main threads of interest have motivated the work of our 

 Southwest Archaeological Expedition: (1) an attempt to recognize 

 consistent interrelationship between culture phenomena in order to 

 establish regularities or similarities that might recur in, through, 

 and across cultural boundaries or in historically separate areas and 



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