#1655, Style III Flower Pot Bowl from Old Town

This Flower Pot 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.

这件花钵式陶碗（Flower Pot Bowl）是新墨西哥州西南部卢纳县明布雷斯（Mimbres）遗址旧镇（亦称旧镇废墟（Old Town Ruin））的III式风格器物，该遗址毗邻明布雷斯河下游河段。旧镇与加拉兹（Galaz）同为明布雷斯河谷规模最大的明布雷斯聚落之一。该遗址现存数百座半地穴式房址与地面建筑，人类居留活动年代跨度从晚期穴居时期直至黑山期（约公元550年至1300年）。旧镇遗址曾遭文物盗掘者严重破坏。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，相关研究成果已得到全面整理刊发（Creel, 2006）。多所文博机构均收藏有在旧镇遗址出土的陶碗。达雷尔·克里尔（2006）《新墨西哥州卢纳县旧镇废墟考古发掘报告（1989-2003）》，美国土地管理局新墨西哥州圣达菲办事处。