#4642, 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.

本件碗具为新墨西哥州西南部卢纳县明布雷斯（Mimbres）遗址老城（又称老城废墟）出土的第三风格器物实例，该遗址毗邻明布雷斯河下游河段。老城与加拉兹（Galaz）同为明布雷斯河谷规模最大的明布雷斯村落之一。遗址内现存数百座半地穴式房屋与地面居室，其人类活动年代可覆盖晚期穴居时期（Late Pithouse period）至黑山期（Black Mountain Phase，约公元550年—1300年）。老城遗址曾遭受盗墓者的严重破坏。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、得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的名义，与美国土地管理局（Bureau of Land Management）合作，在该遗址开展了大量考古研究，相关成果已被全面整理并刊发（Creel 2006）。目前有多家文博机构收藏了老城遗址出土的这类碗具。达雷尔·克里尔（2006）：《新墨西哥州卢纳县老城废墟考古发掘报告（1989—2003）》，美国土地管理局新墨西哥州圣达菲办事处。