#8750, Style III Effigy from Old Town

This Effigy is an example of Style III from Old Town (also known as Old Town Ruin) a Mimbres site in Luna County, southwestern New Mexico, near the southern end of the Mimbres River. Old Town is (along with Galaz) one of the largest Mimbres villages in the Mimbres Valley. It has hundreds of pit houses and surface rooms, with occupations dating from the Late Pithouse period through the Black Mountain Phase (ca. AD 550-1300). Old Town was very badly damaged by looters. Between 1989 and 2007 Darrell Creel (working through Texas A&M University and then the University of Texas, Austin, in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management) did extensive research at the site, work that is being comprehensively reported (Creel 2006). Numerous institutions own bowls found at Old Town. Creel, Darrell (2006) Excavations at the Old Town Ruin, Luna County, New Mexico, 1989-2003. Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Santa Fe.

这件偶像塑像（effigy）是新墨西哥州西南部卢纳县明布雷斯遗址（Mimbres site）老镇（亦称老镇废墟）出土的第三风格范例，该遗址毗邻明布雷斯河（Mimbres River）南端。老镇与加拉兹（Galaz）同为明布雷斯河谷中规模最大的明布雷斯村落之一。该遗址现存数百座半地穴式房址与地面建筑房址，其人类居住活动的年代跨度从晚半地穴时期直至黑山期（约公元550-1300年）。老镇遗址曾遭受盗掘者的严重破坏。1989年至2007年间，达雷尔·克里尔（Darrell Creel）先后依托德克萨斯农工大学（Texas A&M University）、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（University of Texas, Austin），并与美国土地管理局（Bureau of Land Management）合作，在该遗址开展了大规模考古研究，相关工作已得到全面报道（Creel 2006）。目前有多所机构收藏有在老镇遗址出土的陶碗。克里尔, 达雷尔（2006）《新墨西哥州卢纳县老镇废墟发掘报告（1989-2003）》，美国土地管理局新墨西哥州圣达菲办事处。