#6615, Style III Seed Jar from Galaz

This Seed Jar is an example of Style III from the Galaz Ruin site. Galaz ruin (sometimes known as Galaz Ruin) is a Mimbres village in Grants County, southwestern New Mexico, occupied from A.D. 550 to 1350. Galaz was one of the largest villages occupied during Mimbres Classic times (A.D. 1000-1130), and it also contained numerous pithouses and a Postclassic settlement, as well as a large assemblage of ceramics, lithics, and faunal material. Originally excavated in the 1920s and 1930s by the Southwest Museum of Los Angeles and the University of Minnesota, it became a point of controversy regarding looting in the 1970s and was eventually bulldozed out of existence. Before Galaz was destroyed in the 1970s, the Mimbres Foundation conducted extensive excavations and produced a comprehensive report (Anyon and LeBlanc 1984, http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b2037447~S3).

本种子陶罐为加拉兹遗址（Galaz Ruin）第三风格器物的典型实例。加拉兹遗址（亦称Galaz Ruin）是坐落于新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的明布雷斯（Mimbres）村落遗址，其存续年代为公元550年至1350年。
加拉兹是明布雷斯古典时期（公元1000年—1130年）规模最大的定居聚落之一，遗址内留存有大量半地穴式房屋（pithouse）、一处后古典时期（Postclassic）聚落，以及数量可观的陶瓷器、石质遗物（lithics）与动物遗存（faunal material）。
该遗址最初于20世纪20至30年代由洛杉矶西南博物馆（Southwest Museum of Los Angeles）与明尼苏达大学（University of Minnesota）联合开展考古发掘，20世纪70年代因盗掘问题引发广泛争议，最终被推土机铲平并彻底消失。
在加拉兹遗址于20世纪70年代被毁前，明布雷斯基金会对其实施了大规模考古发掘，并完成了一份综合研究报告（Anyon与LeBlanc，1984，http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b2037447~S3）。