#11090, Style III bowl from Old Town

This bowl, from Old Town, is an example of Style III Mimbres Black-on-white pottery. Old Town (also known as Old Town Ruin) is 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.

这件出自旧镇（Old Town，亦称旧镇废墟）的陶碗，是明布雷斯（Mimbres）第三风格白地黑彩陶器的典型实例。旧镇遗址是位于美国新墨西哥州西南部卢纳县的明布雷斯文化遗址，地处明布雷斯河下游河段附近。旧镇与加拉兹（Galaz）一同，是明布雷斯河谷中规模最大的明布雷斯村落之一。该遗址现存数百座半地穴式房屋与地面建筑，人类活动时段涵盖晚棚屋期至黑山期（约公元550年至1300年）。旧镇遗址曾遭盗墓者严重破坏。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），并联合美国土地管理局（Bureau of Land Management），在该遗址开展了大规模考古研究，相关工作已在《克里尔2006》中得到全面报告。目前，多家文博机构均收藏有该遗址出土的陶碗。达雷尔·克里尔（2006）《新墨西哥州卢纳县旧镇废墟考古发掘报告（1989-2003）》，美国土地管理局新墨西哥州圣达菲办事处。