#2579, 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).

这件陶碗是斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin）第三风格的典型器物。该遗址亦被称为斯沃茨遗址（Swartz Ruin），是坐落于美国新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的明布雷斯（Mimbres）古村落遗址，由H.S.科斯格罗夫（H.S. Cosgrove）与C.B.科斯格罗夫（C.B. Cosgrove）于20世纪20年代主持发掘。该遗址的年代跨度约为公元950年至1175年，出土遗存包括保存相对完好的多座半地穴式房屋、多处经典明布雷斯式房址群，以及一大批陶瓷器、石器与动物骨骼遗存。发掘结束后的一段时期内，该遗址被夷平。科斯格罗夫夫妇此次发掘所获的文物、照片及田野记录，现馆藏于哈佛大学皮博迪考古与民族学博物馆（Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology）。布罗迪（Brody）在其关于明布雷斯陶器的专著（1977年、2002年，http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3）中，将斯瓦茨遗址列为明布雷斯遗址的典型案例。该遗址的综合研究报告（科斯格罗夫夫妇，1932年）已于近期再版（http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3）。