#2447, Style III Bowl from Swarts

This Bowl is an example of Style III from the Swarts Ruin site. Swarts ruin (sometimes known as Swartz ruin) is a Mimbres village in Grants County, southwestern New Mexico, excavated during the 1920s by H.S. and C.B. Cosgrove. The site dates from about A.D. 950 to 1175 and contained the relatively undisturbed remains of numerous pit houses and several Classic Mimbres roomblocks, as well as a large assemblage of ceramics, lithics, and faunal material. Sometime after the excavations, the site was leveled. Artifacts, photographs and field notes from the Cosgrove excavations are curated in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Swarts is described as an example Mimbres site in Brody?s books on Mimbres pottery (1977, 2002 http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3). A comprehensive report on the site (Cosgrove and Cosgrove 1932) has recently been reprinted (http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3).

这件陶碗是斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin site）第三风格的典型器物。斯瓦茨遗址亦称斯沃茨遗址，是坐落于新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的明布雷斯（Mimbres）村落遗址，由H.S.科斯格罗夫与C.B.科斯格罗夫夫妇于1920年代主持发掘。该遗址的年代跨度约为公元950年至1175年，遗存保存相对完好、未受过多扰动，包含多座半地穴式房屋（pit houses）、若干经典明布雷斯建筑组（Classic Mimbres roomblocks），以及大批陶瓷器、石制器物（lithics）与动物遗存（faunal material）。发掘工作结束后不久，该遗址被夷平。科斯格罗夫夫妇此次发掘所获的文物、照片及田野记录，现馆藏于哈佛大学皮博迪考古与民族学博物馆（Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University）。布罗迪在其关于明布雷斯陶器的著作（1977、2002，http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3）中，将斯瓦茨遗址作为明布雷斯遗址的典型案例进行阐释。关于该遗址的综合研究报告（科斯格罗夫夫妇，1932）已于近期再版（http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3）。