#4636, Style III Bowl from Old Town

This Bowl is an example of Style III from Old Town (also known as Old Town Ruin) a Mimbres site in Luna County, southwestern New Mexico, near the southern end of the Mimbres River. Old Town is (along with Galaz) one of the largest Mimbres villages in the Mimbres Valley. It has hundreds of pit houses and surface rooms, with occupations dating from the Late Pithouse period through the Black Mountain Phase (ca. AD 550-1300). Old Town was very badly damaged by looters. Between 1989 and 2007 Darrell Creel (working through Texas A&M University and then the University of Texas, Austin, in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management) did extensive research at the site, work that is being comprehensively reported (Creel 2006). Numerous institutions own bowls found at Old Town. Creel, Darrell (2006) Excavations at the Old Town Ruin, Luna County, New Mexico, 1989-2003. Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Santa Fe.这件陶碗是旧镇遗址（亦称旧镇废墟，Old Town Ruin）第三风格器物的典型示例，该遗址是位于新墨西哥州西南部卢纳县的明布雷斯（Mimbres）文化遗址，地处明布雷斯河（Mimbres River）下游河段附近。旧镇与加拉兹（Galaz）一同被列为明布雷斯河谷中规模最大的明布雷斯村落遗址之一。遗址内现存数百座半地穴房址与地面建筑，人类活动遗存年代跨度从晚半地穴时期直至黑山期（约公元550年—1300年）。旧镇遗址曾遭盗墓者严重破坏。1989年至2007年间，达雷尔·克里尔（Darrell Creel）先后依托得克萨斯农工大学（Texas A&M University）、得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（University of Texas, Austin）开展工作，并与美国土地管理局（Bureau of Land Management）合作，在该遗址开展了大规模考古研究，相关成果已被全面整理刊发（Creel, 2006）。目前有多家文博机构收藏了在旧镇遗址出土的这类陶碗。达雷尔·克里尔所著《1989—2003年新墨西哥州卢纳县旧镇废墟考古发掘报告》由美国土地管理局新墨西哥州圣达菲办事处出版发行。