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）风格II的典型器物。斯瓦茨遗址（亦称斯瓦茨废墟）是位于新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的一处明布雷斯（Mimbres）村落遗址，于20世纪20年代由H.S.科斯格罗夫与C.B.科斯格罗夫夫妇主持发掘。该遗址的年代约为公元950年至1175年，留存有大量保存相对完好的半地穴式房屋遗迹、数处经典明布雷斯式房址区块，以及数量丰富的陶瓷器、石器与动物遗骸标本。发掘结束后一段时间，该遗址被夷平。科斯格罗夫夫妇发掘出土的文物、照片与野外工作笔记，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。斯瓦茨遗址在布洛迪（Brody）所著的明布雷斯陶器研究专著（1977、2002，http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3）中被作为明布雷斯遗址的典型案例加以介绍。关于该遗址的综合研究报告（科斯格罗夫夫妇，1932）已于近期再版（http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3）。