#6632, uncertain Effigy from Mattocks

This Effigy is an example of uncertain 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.

这件塑像（effigy）为新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县米姆布雷斯（Mimbres）河谷中段的米姆布雷斯村落遗址马特科克斯（Mattocks site）出土的一件待考标本。该遗址的使用年代覆盖晚坑室文化期（Late Pithouse Period）与经典米姆布雷斯时期（Classic Mimbres Period），即约公元550年至1130年，共包含8处经典米姆布雷斯时期的房区，总计约180间房址。1929年，保罗·内斯比特（Paul Nesbitt，贝洛伊特学院洛根博物馆）曾对该遗址开展部分发掘工作。20世纪70年代，米姆布雷斯基金会（Mimbres Foundation）将其作为核心研究对象，相关研究详见LeBlanc 1983年第8章，访问链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/search~S3?/aLeBlanc%2C+Steven/aleblanc+steven/1%2C2%2C16%2CB/frameset&FF=aleblanc+steven+a&9%2C%2C15，此次研究所得的大部分文物现收藏于新墨西哥大学麦克斯韦博物馆（Maxwell Museum, University of New Mexico）。如今，西南考古学会（Archaeology Southwest）已永久获得马特科克斯遗址的地役权。