#2679, 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。斯瓦茨遗址（亦称斯沃茨遗址）是位于新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的明布雷斯（Mimbres）古村落，1920年代由H.S.科兹格罗夫与C.B.科兹格罗夫主持发掘。该遗址年代约为公元950年至1175年，留存有大量保存相对完好的半地穴式房屋遗迹、数处经典明布雷斯风格房址群，以及大批陶瓷器、石器与动物遗存。发掘结束后一段时间，该遗址被夷平。科兹格罗夫夫妇发掘出土的文物、照片与田野记录，现由哈佛大学皮博迪考古与人类学博物馆（Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology）典藏保管。布罗迪（Brody）所著的明布雷斯陶器研究专著（1977、2002年，馆藏链接：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。该遗址的综合性发掘报告（科兹格罗夫夫妇，1932年）近期已再版（馆藏链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3）。