#2409, 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).

这件碗具是斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin）第三风格（Style III）的代表性标本。斯瓦茨遗址（亦称斯瓦茨废墟）是坐落于美国新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的一处明布雷斯（Mimbres）古村落，1920年代由H.S.科斯格罗夫与C.B.科斯格罗夫夫妇主持发掘。该遗址的年代跨度约为公元950年至1175年，遗存包含大量相对未受扰动的坑屋遗迹、数处经典明布雷斯风格的连片房址群，以及丰富的陶瓷器、石质遗物与动物遗存。发掘工作结束后不久，该遗址被夷为平地。科斯格罗夫夫妇此次发掘所获的文物、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。布罗迪在其关于明布雷斯陶器的专著（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介绍。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）。