#2651, Style III Jar from Swarts

This Jar 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).

本陶罐系斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin）出土的第三风格器物标本。斯瓦茨遗址（亦称斯沃茨遗址）是坐落于美国新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的明布雷斯（Mimbres）村落遗址，1920年代由H.S.科斯格罗夫与C.B.科斯格罗夫（H.S. & C.B. Cosgrove）主持发掘。该遗址年代跨度约为公元950年至1175年，遗存相对未受扰动，包含大量半地穴式房屋遗迹、数处经典明布雷斯风格房屋建筑群，以及一批数量可观的陶瓷器、石器与动物骨骼遗存。发掘工作结束后一段时间，该遗址被夷为平地。科斯格罗夫夫妇此次发掘出土的文物、照片与田野笔记，现馆藏于哈佛大学皮博迪考古与民族学博物馆（Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology）。布罗迪（Brody）在其有关明布雷斯陶器的专著（1977、2002年，馆藏链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3）中，将斯瓦茨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）。