#2644, Style III Jar from Swarts

This Jar 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).

这件陶罐是斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin site）第三风格器物的典型示例。斯瓦茨遗址（亦常被称为斯沃茨遗址）是坐落于新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的明布雷斯（Mimbres）古村落遗址，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，遗存保存相对完好，包含大量半地穴式房屋遗迹、数处经典明布雷斯式房址群，以及一批丰富的陶器、石器与动物骨骼遗存。发掘工作结束后的某一时期，该遗址被夷为平地。科斯格罗夫夫妇此次发掘出土的文物、实拍照片与田野笔记，现由哈佛大学皮博迪考古与民族学博物馆（Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology）妥善收藏保管。布罗迪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，将斯瓦茨遗址作为明布雷斯遗址的典型案例加以阐述。该遗址的综合考古报告（科斯格罗夫夫妇，1932年）已于近期再版（http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3）。