Ceramic: Unfired clay jar stopper from Room 48 Aztec West Ruin, AMNH 29.0/7529
Part of the Aztec West Ruin: Perishable Artifacts and Pottery from Excavations by the American Museum of Natural History project
Creator(s): Lori Reed
Year: 2004
Summary
Unfired clay jar stopper (Analysis Lori Reed 2004). Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 48, West Ruin, Aztec Ruins. Earl Morris’ description of Room 48 at the time of excavation is as follows. “The floor was covered with refuse.. The greater proportion of this deposit was of vegetable substance; cornstalks, husks, tassels, and cobs, cedarbark, splinters of the same wood, as well as human excrement. This deposit of Chaco age had been completely protected from moisture and constituted, aside from some found in the caves of Del Muerto canyon, the richest repository for perishable artifacts that has come within the experience of the writer. Above this sand had worked down through the second floor before the timbers supporting the latter had failed. These had fallen in recent times, after the mound had reached its final form, as evidenced by the ragged crater left by the settling of the debris above them subsequent to their collapse” (Morris 1928:307-308). Reference: Earl Morris, 1928, Notes on Excavations in the Aztec Ruin, Volume XXVI, Part V, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Cite this Record
Ceramic: Unfired clay jar stopper from Room 48 Aztec West Ruin, AMNH 29.0/7529. Lori Reed. 2004. NPS Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM ( tDAR id: 365201) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8G44NZ8
Keywords
Culture
Ancestral Puebloan
Material
Ceramic
Site Name
Aztec Ruins, West Ruin
Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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Settlements
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Town / City
Investigation Types
Collections Research
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Data Recovery / Excavation
General
Aztec West Ruin
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Ceramic
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Earl Morris
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Jar stopper
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Pottery
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Room 48
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Unfired Ceramics
Geographic Keywords
Animas Valley
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Four Corners Region
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Middle San Juan
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San Juan Basin
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Totah
Temporal Keywords
Late Chacoan - Post Chacoan Period
Temporal Coverage
Calendar Date: 1110 to 1140 (Late Chacoan)
Calendar Date: 1140 to 1280 (Post-Chacoan)
Spatial Coverage
min long: -108.038; min lat: 36.803 ; max long: -107.955; max lat: 36.861 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Gary Brown
Contributor(s): Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM
Principal Investigator(s): Lori Reed
Repository(s): American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY
Record Identifiers
American Museum of Natural History(s): Accession 29.0
Notes
Rights & Attribution: Artifact was collected from Aztec West Ruin excavations by Earl Morris between 1916 and 1922. Morris' excavations were sponsored and funded by the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Rights & Attribution: High resolution images of the item are archived and available to researchers through the National Park Service, Aztec Ruins National Monument.
Rights & Attribution: Publication or use of the image is restricted; permission may be obtained through consultation with American Museum of Natural History and Aztec Ruins National Monument.
Source Collections
Original Item: American Museum of Natural History, New York
Image: NPS, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, New Mexico
Related Comparative Collections
Aztec Ruins Collections housed at Hibben Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Aztec Ruins Collections housed at American Museum of Natural History, New York
Aztec Ruins Collections housed at Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, New Mexico
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