#2224, 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).

本件陶碗为斯瓦茨废墟遗址（Swarts Ruin site）第三风格的代表性器物。斯瓦茨废墟（亦称斯沃茨废墟）是坐落于新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的明布雷斯（Mimbres）古村落遗址，于20世纪20年代由H.S.科斯格罗夫与C.B.科斯格罗夫夫妇主持发掘。该遗址年代约为公元950年至1175年，遗存保存相对完好，包含大量半地穴式房屋遗迹、多处经典明布雷斯房址群落，以及丰富的陶瓷器、石质器物与动物遗存标本。发掘结束后的一段时期内，该遗址遭到平整破坏。科斯格罗夫夫妇发掘出土的文物、照片与田野记录，现由哈佛大学皮博迪考古与民族学博物馆（Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology）收藏保管。布罗迪（Brody）在其关于明布雷斯陶瓷的专著（1977年、2002年，馆藏链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3）中，将斯瓦茨废墟遗址作为明布雷斯遗址的典型案例进行阐述。该遗址的综合发掘报告（科斯格罗夫夫妇，1932年）已于近期再版，馆藏链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3。