#2342, Style III Bowl from Swarts

This Bowl 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).本件陶碗为斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin）出土的第三风格（Style III）器物标本。斯瓦茨遗址（亦称斯沃茨遗址）是坐落于新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的明布雷斯（Mimbres）古村落，由H.S.·科斯格罗夫与C.B.·科斯格罗夫于1920年代主持发掘。该遗址的年代跨度约为公元950年至1175年，遗址内保存有大量相对未受扰动的坑式住宅遗迹、数处经典明布雷斯式房址集群，以及大批陶瓷器、石器与动物遗存。发掘工作结束后的一段时期内，该遗址被夷为平地。科斯格罗夫夫妇发掘所得的文物、照片及田野记录，现由哈佛大学皮博迪考古与民族学博物馆（Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology）收藏保管。布罗迪在其关于明布雷斯陶器的专著（1977、2002，馆藏链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3）中，将斯瓦茨遗址作为明布雷斯遗址的典型案例进行介绍。该遗址的综合研究报告（科斯格罗夫夫妇，1932）已于近期再版，馆藏链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3。