#2243, Style III Flare rim bowl from Nan Ranch

This Flare rim bowl is an example of Style III from the NAN Ranch Ruin, a Mimbres site in Grants County, southwestern New Mexico. Its site number is LA2465, but it is also sometimes reported as Hinton Ruin (it is on land owned by the Hinton family) or LA15049. NAN Ranch Ruin was very well preserved and contained the remains of numerous pit houses and several Classic Mimbres roomblocks, as well as a large assemblage of ceramics, lithics, and faunal material. Its occupation dates from about AD 600 to 1130. NAN has been key in the development of Mimbres pottery chronologies and architectural studies. It was excavated briefly by several parties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Then, beginning in 1978, Harry Shafer of Texas A&M University began an extensive research program at the site, comprehensively reported in Shafer?s 2003 book http://www.amazon.com/Mimbres-Archaeology-NAN-Ranch-Ruin/dp/0826322042. The collections from the NAN Ranch Ruin have recently been donated to the Western New Mexico University Museum in Silver City.这件折沿碗（Flare rim bowl）是新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县境内的明布雷斯（Mimbres）遗址——NAN牧场遗址（NAN Ranch Ruin）的III型风格典型器物。该遗址编号为LA2465，有时也被记作辛顿遗址（Hinton Ruin，因坐落于辛顿家族所有的土地之上）或LA15049。NAN牧场遗址保存状况极佳，出土了大量坑屋遗迹、数处经典明布雷斯式房址群，以及丰富的陶器、石器与动物遗存组合。该遗址的人类活动年代约为公元600年至1130年。NAN牧场遗址对于明布雷斯陶器编年学与建筑研究的发展具有关键意义。19世纪末至20世纪初，曾有多支考古队对该遗址进行过短期发掘。1978年起，就职于得克萨斯农工大学（Texas A&M University）的哈里·谢弗（Harry Shafer）在该遗址启动了一项综合性研究项目，其完整研究成果刊载于谢弗2003年出版的专著《明布雷斯考古：NAN牧场遗址》（http://www.amazon.com/Mimbres-Archaeology-NAN-Ranch-Ruin/dp/0826322042）。近期，NAN牧场遗址出土的文物藏品已被捐赠至锡尔弗城的西新墨西哥大学博物馆（Western New Mexico University Museum）。