#8042, 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.

这件陶碗为新墨西哥州西南部卢纳县境内明布雷斯（Mimbres）遗址——老城（亦称老城遗址）——所出土的III式风格器物，该遗址毗邻明布雷斯河下游河段。老城与加拉兹（Galaz）一同，是明布雷斯河谷中规模最大的明布雷斯文化聚落之一。该遗址现存数百座半地穴式房屋与地面房屋，其人类活动年代跨度从晚半地穴时期直至黑山期（约公元550年至1300年）。老城遗址曾遭受盗掘者的严重破坏。1989年至2007年间，达雷尔·克里尔（Darrell Creel）先后依托德克萨斯农工大学（Texas A&M University）、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（University of Texas, Austin），联合美国土地管理局（Bureau of Land Management）在该遗址开展了大规模考古研究，相关工作成果已由克里尔（2006）全面整理报道。目前有众多文博机构收藏有老城遗址出土的陶碗。达雷尔·克里尔. 2006. 《新墨西哥州卢纳县老城遗址1989-2003年考古发掘报告》. 美国土地管理局新墨西哥州圣达菲办事处。