Ceramic: Pueblo III Corrugated, olla, AZRU1-920

Mesa Verde style corrugated, olla, complete vessel. Accession AZRU-00001, Catalog #920. Morris FS 5422. Analyzed by Lori Reed, 2011. Granular igneous temper indicating local production. Lightly indented, clapboard zoned corrugations partly obliterated. Measurements: 29 cm rim diameter, 23.5 cm orifice diameter, 38 cm max diameter, 38 cm height. Image AZRU1-920A: exterior view. Image AZRU1-920B: exterior view. Image AZRU1-920C: base view. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 188B Aztec West Ruin. Earl Morris’ description of Rooms 188A, B, and C at the time of excavation is as follows. “Above Room 188 and extending eastward over a part of the next room had been a late dwelling of which three chambers had not been eroded beyond recognition. ….Room 188a lay above the northeast center of Room 188 at the level of the top of the east wall…. The distance between the floors was 10 feet 8 inches. ….The floor was of tramped adobe. In the center was a circular fireplace….The walls had been plastered with adobe…..Room 188a was built on after Rooms 188b and 188c were constructed. The lowest floor [of Room 188b] was on a level with that of Room 188a. It was of plain adobe. On top of it was a 1-foot 2-inch fill of clean earth, then another floor which had been tinted red, as had the walls thence upward. ….Room 188c was 6 and one-half feet north and south and more than 8 feet long. The floor was 4 inches above the lower one of Room 188b….The walls of this group of chambers were poorly built of re-used sandstones, varying in thickness from 9 inches to 1 foot. ….” (Morris:1928 406-408) 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.