#4560, Style III Bowl from Old Town

This Bowl is an example of Style III from Old Town (also known as Old Town Ruin) a Mimbres site in Luna County, southwestern New Mexico, near the southern end of the Mimbres River. Old Town is (along with Galaz) one of the largest Mimbres villages in the Mimbres Valley. It has hundreds of pit houses and surface rooms, with occupations dating from the Late Pithouse period through the Black Mountain Phase (ca. AD 550-1300). Old Town was very badly damaged by looters. Between 1989 and 2007 Darrell Creel (working through Texas A&M University and then the University of Texas, Austin, in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management) did extensive research at the site, work that is being comprehensively reported (Creel 2006). Numerous institutions own bowls found at Old Town. Creel, Darrell (2006) Excavations at the Old Town Ruin, Luna County, New Mexico, 1989-2003. Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Santa Fe.

本陶碗为新墨西哥州西南部卢纳县（Luna County）境内、明布雷斯河（Mimbres River）南端附近的明布雷斯遗址（Mimbres site）老镇（亦称老镇废墟，Old Town Ruin）所出土的第三风格（Style III）器物标本。老镇与加拉兹（Galaz）一同为明布雷斯河谷（Mimbres Valley）规模最大的明布雷斯聚落之一。该遗址现存数百座半地穴式房址与地面建筑房址，其人类居住活动年代跨度自晚半地穴时期（Late Pithouse period）直至黑山期（Black Mountain Phase，约公元550年至1300年）。老镇遗址曾遭盗掘者严重破坏。1989年至2007年间，达雷尔·克里尔（Darrell Creel）先后以得克萨斯农工大学（Texas A&M University）、得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（University of Texas, Austin）的名义，与美国土地管理局（Bureau of Land Management）合作，在该遗址开展了大规模考古研究，相关研究成果已由克里尔于2006年全面刊发。诸多文博机构均收藏有老镇遗址出土的陶碗。克里尔，达雷尔（2006）：《新墨西哥州卢纳县老镇废墟考古发掘报告（1989-2003）》，美国土地管理局新墨西哥州办事处圣达菲分部出版。