Ceramic: Pueblo III Corrugated, olla, AZRU1-919

Mesa Verde style corrugated, olla, complete vessel. Accession AZRU-00001 Catalog #919. Morris FS 4187. Analyzed by Lori Reed, 2011. Granular igneous temper indicating local production. Lightly indented coils partly obliterated. Image AZRU1-919A: exterior view. Image AZRU1-919B: exterior view. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 155 Aztec West Ruin. Olla was set into Room 155 floor and used for storage. Earl Morris’ description of Room 155 at the time of excavation is as follows. “A masonry partition 7 to 10 inches in thickness across the transverse center of Room 155 may at one time have divided the area into separate chambers. ….The last-used floor was clean and not hard packed….The fill was of storm-deposited earth and fallen masonry. In the north wall there was a doorway communicating with Room 174…. A vertical post 6 inches in diameter had been set…into the floor…. There was a circular fire pit 1 foot 7 inches in diameter and 6 inches deep at the center of the north half of the chamber. In this part of the room… was a large corrugated storage jar (Field No. 4187) beneath the floor, its mouth flush therewith. The bottom of this jar extended into another floor 10 inches below the one last used…..” (Morris 1928: 399-400) Reference: Earl Morris, 1928, Notes on Excavations in the Aztec Ruin, Volume XXVI, Part V, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.