Salmon Pueblo
Salmon Pueblo (also: Salmon Ruins) is the English name of a ruin of the Chaco Canyon culture near Bloomfield in New Mexico . The colony was built around 1088-1090 by the Ancestral Puebloans , the pueblos- building indigenous cultures of the North American southwest. It was inhabited until around 1280. The architecture and finds show a clear relationship to the finds made in Chaco Canyon. There have been about 200 settlements of this culture outside of Chaco Canyon, but Salmon Pueblo is the only one that has been excavated on a large scale.
From around 1050, and increasingly around 1200, there began a gradual shift of family clans from the Four Corners area to better protected spots on steep mesas or to safer water points along the Rio Grande . About a hundred years later this migration was over. Like other Anasazi settlements, the Salmon Pueblo was also abandoned after repeated droughts. Later, from around 1400, Athapaskan- speaking hunters and gatherers came to the area and continued to use the abandoned pueblos.
The settlement is about 45 miles north of Chaco Canyon, on the north bank of the San Juan . It was the first and one of the largest colonies of the Chaco Canyon people outside of Chanco Canyon. The pueblo was built on three floors and had 275 rooms. It was abandoned around 1280 and most of it burned down. The residents settled in other areas of the southwest .
Although different tribes and nations trace their ancestry to this area and have their own names for the place, it is known by the name of a settler named George Salmon who owned the land until after 1950. From 1970 to 1979, 1.5 million artifacts were recovered in an excavation campaign.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ NEH-funded project brings Salmon Pueblo ruins into digital age. May 11, 2018, accessed May 12, 2020 .
- ^ Salmon Ruins Museum. Retrieved May 12, 2020 (English).
- ^ Salmon Pueblo Archeological Research Collection. Retrieved May 12, 2020 (English).
Coordinates: 36 ° 42 '4 " N , 108 ° 1' 38" W.