All the Mogollon corrugated ceramic types originally included in this web site were based on forms distinguished by a range of exterior coil and surface textures mainly defined for pottery in the Reserve area in the Northern Mogollon Highlands (Rinaldo and Bluhm 1956). While some of the finely coiled plain corrugated brown utility ware pottery commonly dominating Mimbres phase assemblages seem to partly fall within the range of variability defined for Reserve Plain Corrugated, examples exhibiting characteristics common in plain corrugated ceramics from sites in the Mimbres region have often been assigned to Mimbres Corrugated (Anyon and LeBlanc 1984; Cosgrove and Cosgrove 1932; Hawley 1936; Schafer 1995; Seltzer-Roger and Kurota 2020). It may not always be possible to distinguish Mimbres Corrugated from Reserve Corrugated and other Mogollon corrugated types. The wider range of indented corrugated forms from sites in the Mimbres region that exhibit surface various indented corrugated styles that overlap those described for types defined for the Northern Mogollon Highlands types have sometimes been characterized as Mimbres Corrugated II (Schafer 1995) while pottery exhibiting this range of surface characteristics have also sometimes been assigned to a broader “Mogollon Brownware Corrugated Indeterminate” category (Seltzer-Roger and Kurota 2020) for which further divisions may be made based on surface texture. The description of Mimbres Corrugated presented here refers to examples that have sometimes been described as Mimbres Corrugated II (Schafer 1995). Mimbres Corrugated as described here is characterized by the common occurrence of partially to very smoothed and partly obliterated thin flattened plain corrugated or finely coil treatments, as compared to Reserve Plain Corrugated defined for the Northern Mogollon Highlands that may more often display overlapping coils and interior polished smudged treatments and bowl forms (Seltzer-Roger an Kurota 2020; Rinaldo and Buhm 1956). Coils on Mimbres Corrugated are partially obliterated and smoothed. Variants defined for this type include Mimbres Fully Corrugated where banded corrugated treatments can be demonstrated to cover the entire surface and Mimbres Partially Corrugated which is distinguished by smoothed plain surfaces along the bottom portions of the vessel. A row of small punctate treatments is often present on the bottom coil of partially corrugated vessels. Most sherds for which the basal portion of a vessel is not present are usually simply assigned to Mimbres Corrugated (Seltzer-Rogers Kurota 2020). The overwhelming majority of pottery assigned to this type represent jars usually with highly flared necks, with bowls being occasionally identified by rim shape or the presence of interior polishing. Jar interiors are almost unpolished. Surface color is usually brown tp gray. Temper is a fine volcanic rock resembling that noted in Mogollon brown wares from other regions of the Mogollon.
The Mimbres Corrugated types are postulated to have been produced from A.D.850 to 1140 Seltzer-Roger and Kurota 2020). This is a beginning and ending date that Is significantly earlier than that associated with Reserve Corrugated types defined for regions of the Northern Mogollon Highlands. The earlier date for the initial production of Mimbres Corrugated may reflect a direct and continual derivation directly out of Three Circle neck Corrugated before corrugated forms were produced in other regions. The earlier ending date for this type is the result of the abandonment of much of the Mimbres region during the middle twelfth century. The sequence associated with this type seems also to be reflected by a gradual increase in the area covered by fine coils or plain corrugations, and an increase in the size and form of jars with smaller pitchers more common earlier (Anyon and LeBlanc 1984).

References:
Anyon, Roger and Steven A. LeBlanc
1984 The Galaz Ruin. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Cosgrove, Hattie S., and C. Burton Cosgrove

1932 The Swartz Ruin, A Typical Mimbres Site in Southwestern New Mexico. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol 15, No. 1, Cambridge.

Hawley, Florence
1936 Field Manual of Prehistoric Southwestern Pottery Types. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropology Series, Vol 1, no.4.

Rinaldo, John B., and Elaine Bluhm
1956 Late Mogollon Pottery Types of the Reserve Area. Fieldiana: Anthropology 36 (7):149-187, Chicago Nature History Museum.

Schafer, Harry J.
1995 Mimbres Archaeology at the Nan Ranch Ruin. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Seltzer-Rogers , Thatcher A. and Alexander Kurota
2020 Chapter 10, Analysis of Mogollon Pottery from the Lake Roberts Site (LA 47821) and Hooker Site (LA1270510. In Excavations at the Lake Roberts Site (LA 47821) and the Hooker Site (La 127051), Grant County New Mexico, edited by Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers and Alexander Kurota, pp 1-71, OCA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,

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