Sentence examples for Mimbres from high-quality English sources.

• One group, known as the Mimbres, were especially well known for their pottery.

• The researchers collected DNA samples from the bones of the Chaco Canyon birds, along with a smaller sample of contemporary macaw bones from the Mimbres region in southern New Mexico.

• The Mogollon reached their artistic pinnacle during the Classic Mimbres Period (c. 1000–1150).

• In the Mogollon 5 period, and especially during the Mimbres phase, profound changes occurred: pit houses were replaced by adobe and masonry apartment houses that were built at ground level and rose one to three stories high.

• Mimbres, a prehistoric North American people who formed a branch of the classic Mogollon culture and who lived principally along the Mimbres River in the rugged Gila Mountains of what is present-day southwestern New Mexico, U.S.

• In speaking about Mogollon culture generally, however, scholars frequently make reference to five developmental periods: Mogollon 1 and 2, approximately ad 200–650; Mogollon 3, 650–850; Mogollon 4, 850–1000; and Mogollon 5, 1000–1450, which includes the Classic Mimbres phase, 1050–1200.

• The Mogollon culture of New Mexico produced, during the Mimbres period of the 11th and 12th centuries, a ware remarkable for its lively black and white decoration depicting human, animal, and insect forms in a much less stylized manner than the paintings on most other wares from the southwest.