#10238, Utility Bowl from Swarts

This Bowl is an example of Utility 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).这件陶碗是斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin，亦常称斯瓦茨废墟）出土的实用器实例。斯瓦茨遗址是位于美国新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的一处明布雷斯（Mimbres）村落遗址，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，遗存包含大量相对未受扰动的坑居遗迹、数处经典明布雷斯式房址区块，以及大批陶瓷器、石器与动物遗存组合。发掘结束后的某一时期，该遗址被夷为平地。科斯格罗夫夫妇此次发掘所获的文物、照片与田野工作笔记，现典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）在其关于明布雷斯陶器的两部著作（1977年、2002年，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。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。