#2438, Style III Bowl from Swarts

This Bowl is an example of Style III 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).

这件陶碗是斯瓦茨废墟遗址（Swarts Ruin）第三风格器物的典型示例。斯瓦茨废墟（Swarts Ruin，亦称斯沃茨废墟，原文存在两种拼写变体）是位于美国新墨西哥州西南部格兰茨县的明布雷斯（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。该遗址的年代跨度约为公元950年至1175年，遗存包含大量未受后期扰动的半地穴式房屋遗迹、多处经典明布雷斯式房址群，以及大量陶器、石器与动物遗存。发掘结束后不久，该遗址被夷平。科斯格罗夫夫妇发掘所得的文物、照片与田野记录，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。布罗迪（Brody）在其关于明布雷斯陶器的专著（1977年、2002年，http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3）中，将斯瓦茨废墟遗址作为明布雷斯遗址的典型案例进行介绍。该遗址的综合研究报告（科斯格罗夫夫妇，1932年）已于近期再版（http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3）。