#3568, 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）遗址老镇（亦称老镇遗址）III式风格器物的典型实例，该遗址坐落于明布雷斯河下游河段附近。老镇与加拉兹（Galaz）同为明布雷斯河谷规模最大的明布雷斯村落之一。遗址内分布有数百座半地穴式房屋与地面建筑，人类活动遗存的年代可追溯至晚半地穴时期直至黑山期（约公元550年至1300年）。老镇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），与美国土地管理局（Bureau of Land Management）合作，在该遗址开展了大规模考古研究，相关研究成果已得到全面系统的整理刊发（Creel 2006）。目前有多座文博机构收藏有从老镇遗址出土的陶碗。Creel, Darrell（2006）《新墨西哥州卢纳县老镇遗址发掘报告（1989-2003）》，美国土地管理局新墨西哥州圣达菲办事处出版。