Ceramic: Mesa Verde style corrugated, globular jar, AZRU1-1034

Mesa Verde style corrugated, globular jar, complete vessel, Accession AZRU-00001, Catalog #1034, Morris FS 5165. Analyzed by Lori Reed 2011. Granular igneous rock temper suggests manufacture at Aztec. Image AZRU1-1034A: exterior view. Image AZRU1-1034B: exterior view closeup of corrugations. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room A.14, Aztec West Ruin Annex. Earl Morris (1924: 236) provides only a cursory description of Room A.14: “Against the north wall of Room A.14, 1 ½ feet east of the bin was a large handsomely ornamented corrugated pot (Field No. 5165, Fig. 3), its mouth less than 6 inches below the surface. Beneath the yard level under the pot was a fill of approximately 3 feet of clean earth containing a few sandstone spalls. This deposit rested upon a smooth, hard, floorlike layer of adobe beneath which was a thin stratum of sandstone spalls; then what appeared to be country earth.”
Reference: Earl Morris, 1924, Burials in the Aztec Ruin and the Aztec Ruin Annex, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. XXVI, Parts III and IV, American Museum of Natural History, New York.