Resources
The Mattocks Site, a Mimbres Classic Village in New Mexico: Archaeological Hope in a Looted Landscape
Join tour leaders Pat Gilman and Marilyn Markel for a virtual tour of the Mattocks Site
https://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/event/the-mattock-site-a-mimbres-classic-village-in-new-mexico-archaeological-hope-in-a-looted-landscape/
The Mimbres region has seen some of the most intensive and extensive looting in North America because of the exquisite painted pottery. Many believed that there were few archaeological remains left to study. Despite the site destruction, archaeologists over decades have gleaned knowledge of the region’s ancient past. Additionally, recent efforts by local residents to preserve the archaeological record offer hope for the future.
The Mattocks site in the northern Mimbres Valley is the focus of this “tour”. Participants will explore the site through comments by the tour leaders Patricia Gilman and Marilyn Markel, as they walk through the site and museum in December, 2021. There are three parts. The first briefly introduces the region and its complex history of human groups from Archaic through Classic Mimbres to Apache. In the second, Pat Gilman, the site supervisor for the excavation, considers the Mimbres Foundation excavation at the Mattocks site in the 1970s. In the third and final section, the tour leaders share the impressive work by local residents in preserving the site, laying an interpretive trail, assembling a small museum, providing educational activities for local children, and building facilities for researchers.
Join tour leaders Pat Gilman and Marilyn Markel for a virtual tour of the Mattocks Site
https://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/event/the-mattock-site-a-mimbres-classic-village-in-new-mexico-archaeological-hope-in-a-looted-landscape/
The Mimbres region has seen some of the most intensive and extensive looting in North America because of the exquisite painted pottery. Many believed that there were few archaeological remains left to study. Despite the site destruction, archaeologists over decades have gleaned knowledge of the region’s ancient past. Additionally, recent efforts by local residents to preserve the archaeological record offer hope for the future.
The Mattocks site in the northern Mimbres Valley is the focus of this “tour”. Participants will explore the site through comments by the tour leaders Patricia Gilman and Marilyn Markel, as they walk through the site and museum in December, 2021. There are three parts. The first briefly introduces the region and its complex history of human groups from Archaic through Classic Mimbres to Apache. In the second, Pat Gilman, the site supervisor for the excavation, considers the Mimbres Foundation excavation at the Mattocks site in the 1970s. In the third and final section, the tour leaders share the impressive work by local residents in preserving the site, laying an interpretive trail, assembling a small museum, providing educational activities for local children, and building facilities for researchers.
Collections and Exhibitions
Western New Mexico University Museum is the home of the NAN Ranch Collection—the largest and most complete collection of Mimbres materials in existence from a single prehistoric Mimbres site, and the largest and most comprehensive permanent interpretative exhibition of Mimbres pottery and artifacts in the world.
Other collections include the Eisele Collection of prehistoric Southwestern pottery and artifacts, including basketry; the Back Collection of historic Maria and Julian Martinez San Ildefonso Pueblo pottery and Santa Clara Pueblo pottery; historic Navajo rugs; the O.C. Hinman Collection of historic Silver City/Grant County photographs; Campus Collections containing of university history [established 1893]; and the U.S. Senator (NM) Jeff Bingaman Memorabilia Collection.
museum.wnmu.edu/?lang=en 575-538-6386
Western New Mexico University Museum is the home of the NAN Ranch Collection—the largest and most complete collection of Mimbres materials in existence from a single prehistoric Mimbres site, and the largest and most comprehensive permanent interpretative exhibition of Mimbres pottery and artifacts in the world.
Other collections include the Eisele Collection of prehistoric Southwestern pottery and artifacts, including basketry; the Back Collection of historic Maria and Julian Martinez San Ildefonso Pueblo pottery and Santa Clara Pueblo pottery; historic Navajo rugs; the O.C. Hinman Collection of historic Silver City/Grant County photographs; Campus Collections containing of university history [established 1893]; and the U.S. Senator (NM) Jeff Bingaman Memorabilia Collection.
museum.wnmu.edu/?lang=en 575-538-6386
Historical Society of New Mexico hsnm.org/
