Style II (Bowl)

This Bowl is an example of Style II 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).本陶碗为斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin）出土的II式风格典型器物。斯瓦茨遗址（亦作斯沃茨遗址（Swartz Ruin））是新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县境内的一处明布雷斯（Mimbres）聚落，于20世纪20年代由H.S. 科斯格罗夫与C.B. 科斯格罗夫主持发掘。该遗址的年代约为公元950年至1175年，保存有大量相对未遭扰动的半地穴式房址遗迹与数处经典明布雷斯式建筑群块，同时出土了大量陶器、石器与动物遗存。发掘结束后不久，该遗址遭到平整破坏。科斯格罗夫夫妇发掘所获的文物、照片与田野笔记，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。斯瓦茨遗址作为明布雷斯遗址的典型案例，曾见于布罗迪关于明布雷斯陶器的专著（1977、2002，http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3）。该遗址的综合研究报告（科斯格罗夫与科斯格罗夫，1932）已于近期再版（http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3）。