#1225, Style III Flower Pot Bowl from Mattocks

This Flower Pot Bowl is an example of Style III from the Mattocks site, a Mimbres village in the middle Mimbres Valley, in Grants County, southwestern New Mexico. Mattocks was occupied during the Late Pithouse and Classic Mimbres periods (ca. AD 550-1130). It has eight Classic roomblocks with a total of about 180 rooms. Mattocks was partly excavated by Paul Nesbitt (Logan Museum, Beloit College) in 1929. Then, in the 1970s, it was a key focus of research by the Mimbres Foundation (LeBlanc 1983: Chapter 8, http://library.lib.asu.edu/search~S3?/aLeBlanc%2C+Steven/aleblanc+steven/1%2C2%2C16%2CB/frameset&FF=aleblanc+steven+a&9%2C%2C15), and much of the material from that work is at the Maxwell Museum, University of New Mexico. Archaeology Southwest now has the easement for the Mattocks site in perpetuity.

这件花钵碗（Flower Pot Bowl）是马特克斯遗址（Mattocks site）出土的第三风格器物典型实例。该遗址是坐落于美国新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县中明布雷斯河谷的明布雷斯（Mimbres）村落遗址，其使用年代涵盖晚棚屋时期与经典明布雷斯时期（约公元550年至1130年）。遗址内现存8处经典时期房址集群，总计约180间房舍。1929年，保罗·内斯比特（贝洛伊特学院洛根博物馆，Logan Museum, Beloit College）对该遗址开展了部分考古发掘。20世纪70年代，明布雷斯基金会（Mimbres Foundation）将其作为核心研究对象（相关研究详见勒布朗1983年第8章，链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/search~S3?/aLeBlanc%2C+Steven/aleblanc+steven/1%2C2%2C16%2CB/frameset&FF=aleblanc+steven+a&9%2C%2C15），此次研究出土的大量文物现馆藏于新墨西哥大学马克斯韦尔博物馆（Maxwell Museum, University of New Mexico）。如今，西南考古协会（Archaeology Southwest）已永久获得马特克斯遗址的地役权。