Fresnal Shelter
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Irwin-Williams, Cynthia
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content: Cynthia Irwin-Williams papers
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content: Cynthia Irwin-Williams papers / Series 1: Research / 1.1: Archaeology
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content: 1979-1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Excavations were conducted at Fresnal Shelter in the Sacramento Mountains, Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, by Irwin-Williams and Mark Wimberly of the Human Systems Research organization between 1969 and 1973, with ethnobotanical work performed by Vorsila Bohrer. The excavations showed evidence of agriculture at a preceramic site. The materials here relate to difficulties which arose years later due to a dispute over the storage of the artifacts discovered in the excavation and a delay in their analysis.