Salmon Ruins
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 7: Photographs and Artwork / Fieldwork
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content: 1970-1986
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content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Salmon Ruins (or Salmon Ruin) was Irwin-Williams' largest excavation. It was performed at the request of the San Juan County Museum Association. It was funded by grants from the Four Corners Regional Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and other sources. The site is a large Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) complex and serves as a link between the cultures of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. The Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection are held by the San Juan County Research Center and Library at Salmon Ruins.