#2038, 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).

本件陶碗为斯瓦茨废墟遗址（Swarts Ruin）出土的明布雷斯第三风格陶器示例。斯瓦茨废墟遗址（Swarts Ruin，亦常被称为斯沃茨废墟遗址）是位于美国新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的一处明布雷斯（Mimbres）史前村落遗址，于1920年代由H.S.科斯格罗夫与C.B.科斯格罗夫二人主持发掘。该遗址的年代跨度约为公元950年至1175年，遗址内保存有大量相对未受扰动的半地穴式房屋遗存、数处经典明布雷斯式房址群，以及大批陶器组合、石器与动物遗存。发掘工作结束后的某一时期，该遗址被夷平。科斯格罗夫发掘队所获文物、照片与野外记录，目前由哈佛大学皮博迪考古与民族学博物馆（Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology）典藏。布罗迪（Brody）在其关于明布雷斯陶器的著作（1977、2002年，馆藏链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3）中，将斯瓦茨废墟遗址列为明布雷斯遗址的典型案例。该遗址的综合研究报告（科斯格罗夫夫妇，1932年）已于近期再版，馆藏链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3。