#8045, 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.

这件陶碗是新墨西哥州西南部卢纳县明布雷斯（Mimbres）遗址旧镇（亦称旧镇遗址）的第三风格器物范例，该遗址毗邻明布雷斯河下游河段。旧镇与加拉兹（Galaz）一同为明布雷斯河谷规模最大的史前聚落之一。该遗址留存有数百座半地穴式房屋与地面式房址，人类活动时段涵盖晚棚屋时期至黑山期（约公元550年至1300年）。旧镇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）先后以德克萨斯农工大学、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校为依托，联合美国土地管理局在该遗址开展了大规模考古研究，相关工作已形成全面的研究报告（Creel 2006）。多所文博机构均收藏有于旧镇遗址出土的陶碗。克里尔, 达雷尔（2006）《新墨西哥州卢纳县旧镇遗址发掘报告（1989-2003）》，美国土地管理局新墨西哥州圣达菲办事处。