Spinden, Herbert Joseph 1879-1967

Exist Dates

August 16, 1879 - October 23, 1967

Biographical or Historical Note

Herbert Joseph Spinden was an anthropologist and authority on the Indians of the Americas. Spinden, as a specialist in ancient American art and history, solved the chronology of Mayan inscriptions with a day-to-day correlation of calendars that made it possible to recover the astronomical science of the Mayas. From 1909 to 1921, he was assistant curator of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History

Worked at the American Museum of Natural History in American Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology.

Sources

Library of Congress Name Authority File

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

American Museum of Natural History
associated dates: 1909-1921

American Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology
associated dates: 1909-1921

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