#2709, Style III Jar from Swarts

This Jar 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).本陶罐为斯瓦茨遗址（Swarts Ruin）出土的第三风格器物示例。斯瓦茨遗址（亦常称斯沃茨遗址，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，1920年代由H.S.科斯格罗夫与C.B.科斯格罗夫夫妇发掘。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、多处经典明布雷斯房址区块，以及一批数量可观的陶器、石器与动物遗存。发掘结束后的某一时期，该遗址被夷为平地。科斯格罗夫夫妇此次发掘所得的文物、照片与野外记录，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）。布罗迪在其关于明布雷斯陶器的专著（1977年、2002年，链接：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年）已于近期再版（链接：http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4816690~S3）。