Ceramic: Mesa Verde style corrugated, globular jar, AZRU1-1034

Summary

Mesa Verde style corrugated, globular jar, complete vessel, Accession AZRU-00001, Catalog #1034, Morris FS 5165. Analyzed by Lori Reed 2011. Granular igneous rock temper suggests manufacture at Aztec. Image AZRU1-1034A: exterior view. Image AZRU1-1034B: exterior view closeup of corrugations. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room A.14, Aztec West Ruin Annex. Earl Morris (1924: 236) provides only a cursory description of Room A.14: “Against the north wall of Room A.14, 1 ½ feet east of the bin was a large handsomely ornamented corrugated pot (Field No. 5165, Fig. 3), its mouth less than 6 inches below the surface. Beneath the yard level under the pot was a fill of approximately 3 feet of clean earth containing a few sandstone spalls. This deposit rested upon a smooth, hard, floorlike layer of adobe beneath which was a thin stratum of sandstone spalls; then what appeared to be country earth.”

Reference: Earl Morris, 1924, Burials in the Aztec Ruin and the Aztec Ruin Annex, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. XXVI, Parts III and IV, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

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Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1110 to 1140 (Late Chacoan)

Calendar Date: 1140 to 1280 (Post-Chacoan)

Spatial Coverage

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Gary Brown

Contributor(s): Anne Grulich; Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM

Principal Investigator(s): Lori Reed

Repository(s): Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM; American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY

Notes

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.

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: 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.

Source Collections

Original Items: American Museum of Natural History, New York, and NPS, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, New Mexico

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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