#2360, 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).

这件碗是斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin，有时亦被称作斯沃茨遗址（Swartz Ruin））第三式风格的典型器物。斯瓦茨遗址是位于美国新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的明布雷斯（Mimbres）村落，由H.S.与C.B.科斯格罗夫夫妇于1920年代主持发掘。该遗址的年代约为公元950年至1175年，留存有大量未受严重扰动的坑屋遗存与数处经典明布雷斯式房址群，同时出土了大批陶瓷器、石制品与动物遗存。发掘工作结束后不久，该遗址便被夷平。科斯格罗夫夫妇此次发掘所得的文物、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）收藏。布罗迪在其关于明布雷斯陶器的著作（1977、2002，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进行介绍。此外，关于该遗址的综合研究报告（科斯格罗夫夫妇，1932）已于近期再版（http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3）。