#4787, Style II or Style III Bowl from Mattocks

This Bowl is an example of "Style II, Style III" from the Mattocks site, a Mimbres village in the middle Mimbres Valley, in Grants County, southwestern New Mexico. Mattocks was occupied during the Late Pithouse and Classic Mimbres periods (ca. AD 550-1130). It has eight Classic roomblocks with a total of about 180 rooms. Mattocks was partly excavated by Paul Nesbitt (Logan Museum, Beloit College) in 1929. Then, in the 1970s, it was a key focus of research by the Mimbres Foundation (LeBlanc 1983: Chapter 8, http://library.lib.asu.edu/search~S3?/aLeBlanc%2C+Steven/aleblanc+steven/1%2C2%2C16%2CB/frameset&FF=aleblanc+steven+a&9%2C%2C15), and much of the material from that work is at the Maxwell Museum, University of New Mexico. Archaeology Southwest now has the easement for the Mattocks site in perpetuity.

这件碗为马特克斯遗址（Mattocks Site）所出土的“II式、III式”器物范例，该遗址是坐落于新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县米姆布雷斯谷中部的明布雷斯（Mimbres）村落遗址。马特克斯遗址的人类活动年代覆盖晚皮陶文化期与明布雷斯古典期，大致为公元550年至1130年。该遗址现存8处明布雷斯古典期房区，总计约180间房址。1929年，保罗·内斯比特（Paul Nesbitt）受贝洛伊特学院洛根博物馆（Logan Museum, Beloit College）委托，对该遗址开展了部分考古发掘工作。20世纪70年代，明布雷斯基金会（Mimbres Foundation）将其列为核心研究对象（勒布朗1983：第8章，文献链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/search~S3?/aLeBlanc%2C+Steven/aleblanc+steven/1%2C2%2C16%2CB/frameset&FF=aleblanc+steven+a&9%2C%2C15），此次研究出土的大量文物标本现收藏于新墨西哥大学马克斯韦尔博物馆（Maxwell Museum）。目前，西南考古学会（Archaeology Southwest）已获得马特克斯遗址的永久保护地役权。