Mimbres culture

"Mimbres" may, depending on its context, refer to a tradition within a subregion of the Mogollon culture area (the Mimbres branch or the Mimbres Mogollon) or to an interval of time, the "Classic Mimbres phase" (also known as the "Mimbres culture";1000-1130, roughly) within the Mimbres branch.The Mimbres branch is a subset of the larger Mogollon culture area, centered in the Mimbres Valley and encompassing the upper Gila River and parts of the upper San Francisco River in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona as well as the Rio Grande Valley and it western tributaries in southwest New Mexico.

Differentiation between the Mimbres branch and other areas of the Mogollon culture area is most apparent during the Three Circle (825-1000 roughly) and Classic Mimbres (1000-1150) phases, when architectural construction and black and white painted pottery assume locally distinctive forms and styles.Classic Mimbres phase pottery is particularly famous pottery, and Classic Mimbres pottery designs (mainly drawn from the Swarts Ruin excavations of 1924-1927) were imitated on Santa Fe Railroad "Mimbreños" china dinnerware from 1936-1970.

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