#2323, 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).

本陶碗为斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin）第三风格器物的典型示例。斯瓦茨遗址（亦作斯瓦茨废墟，Swartz Ruin）是位于新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县的一处明布雷斯（Mimbres）村落遗址，于1920年代由H.S.与C.B.科斯格罗夫（H.S. and C.B. Cosgrove）主持发掘。该遗址的年代约为公元950年至1175年，遗存包含大量相对未受扰动的半地穴式房址、多处经典明布雷斯式房址群，以及大批陶瓷器、石制品与动物遗骸类遗存。发掘结束后的某一时期，该遗址被夷平。科斯格罗夫夫妇发掘所获的文物、照片与野外记录，现由哈佛大学皮博迪考古与民族学博物馆（Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology）收藏保管。布罗迪（Brody）在其关于明布雷斯陶器的专著（1977、2002，http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4770839~S3）中，将斯瓦茨遗址作为明布雷斯遗址的典型案例进行阐述。该遗址的综合研究报告（科斯格罗夫夫妇，1932）已于近期再版（http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3）。