#3548, Style III Bowl from Old Town

This Bowl 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.

本件碗具为新墨西哥州西南部卢纳县（Luna County）明布雷斯遗址（Mimbres site）旧镇（亦称旧镇废墟，Old Town Ruin）出土的第三风格器物实例，该遗址紧邻明布雷斯河（Mimbres River）下游河段。旧镇与加拉兹（Galaz）同为明布雷斯河谷（Mimbres Valley）规模最大的明布雷斯聚落之一。遗址内现存数百座半地穴式房屋（pit houses）与地面建筑（surface rooms），人类居住活动的存续年代可追溯至晚棚屋时期（Late Pithouse period）至黑山期（Black Mountain Phase），大致对应公元550年至1300年。旧镇遗址曾遭盗掘者严重破坏。1989年至2007年间，达雷尔·克里尔（Darrell Creel）先后依托德州农工大学（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，相关研究成果已在克里尔2006年的专著中得到全面汇报。多所机构均收藏有旧镇遗址出土的碗具。克里尔, 达雷尔. 2006. 新墨西哥州卢纳县旧镇废墟考古发掘报告（1989-2003）[R]. 圣达菲：美国土地管理局新墨西哥州办事处。