#1169, Style III Bowl from Mattocks

This Bowl is an example of 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.

这件陶碗是马特克斯遗址（Mattocks site）III式风格器物的典型标本。该遗址坐落于新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县境内的中明布雷斯（Mimbres）河谷，是一处明布雷斯文明村落遗址。马特克斯遗址的人类居住活动存续于晚期皮托时期（Late Pithouse）与明布雷斯古典时期（Classic Mimbres periods，约公元550年至1130年）。遗址内现存8处古典时期房址群，总计约180间房舍。1929年，保罗·内斯比特（就职于贝洛伊特学院洛根博物馆）对该遗址进行了部分考古发掘。20世纪70年代，明布雷斯基金会将该遗址作为核心研究对象（勒布朗1983：第8章，相关文献地址：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现收藏于新墨西哥大学麦克斯韦博物馆。目前，西南考古学会（Archaeology Southwest）已永久获得马特克斯遗址的地役权。