#7541, Style II Jar from Nan Ranch

"This Jar is an example of Style II from the NAN Ranch Ruin, a Mimbres site in Grants County, southwestern New Mexico. Its site number is LA2465, but it is also sometimes reported as Hinton Ruin (it is on land owned by the Hinton family) or LA15049. NAN Ranch Ruin was very well preserved and contained the remains of numerous pit houses and several Classic Mimbres roomblocks, as well as a large assemblage of ceramics, lithics, and faunal material. Its occupation dates from about AD 600 to 1130. NAN has been key in the development of Mimbres pottery chronologies and architectural studies. It was excavated briefly by several parties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Then, beginning in 1978, Harry Shafer of Texas A&M University began an extensive research program at the site, comprehensively reported in Shafer?s 2003 book http://www.amazon.com/Mimbres-Archaeology-NAN-Ranch-Ruin/dp/0826322042. The collections from the NAN Ranch Ruin have recently been donated to the Western New Mexico University Museum in Silver City. "

本陶罐为新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县明布雷斯（Mimbres）遗址——南恩牧场遗址（NAN Ranch Ruin）的II式风格器物实例。该遗址编号为LA2465，有时也被称为辛顿遗址（Hinton Ruin，因其坐落于辛顿家族私有土地之上），亦有编号LA15049。南恩牧场遗址保存状况极佳，出土了大量坑屋遗迹、数处经典明布雷斯房址群，以及数量可观的陶瓷器、石器与动物遗存组合。该遗址的人类活动年代约为公元600年至1130年。南恩牧场遗址是明布雷斯陶器年代学与建筑研究发展进程中的关键遗址。19世纪末至20世纪初，曾有多支考古队对其进行过短期发掘。1978年起，德克萨斯农工大学（Texas A&M University）的哈里·谢弗（Harry Shafer）在该遗址启动了一项大型考古研究项目，其研究成果完整刊载于谢弗2003年出版的专著《明布雷斯考古：南恩牧场遗址》，相关书籍链接为：http://www.amazon.com/Mimbres-Archaeology-NAN-Ranch-Ruin/dp/0826322042。南恩牧场遗址出土的馆藏文物近日已捐赠至位于锡尔弗城的西新墨西哥大学博物馆。