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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 10194522, member: 45&quot;]This has to be either pre-historic Casas Grandes, which dates 1250-1450 A.D., or it is called &quot;Mata Ortiz&quot;, after the village in Mexico where it is made, which dates from the 1970&#039;s to the present. </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1450 Paquime, the center of Casas Crandes culture burned, and the inhabitants vanished. There are no known descendants.</p><p><br /></p><p>The area around the ancient city was uninhabited until the early 1900&#039;s, when the village of Mata Ortiz was started, first as a railroad camp, later as the site of a timber company, and finally as a farming town. All of the inhabitants came&nbsp; from other parts of Mexico. And none claim any tribal affiliation.&nbsp; They consider themselves simply “Mexican.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I would think it dates to the 1970s. The style itself is associated with the area of Porvenir, a barrio of Mata Ortiz. Potters there are accomplished in creating &quot;copies&quot; of</p><p>prehistoric pots, after the Mexican government made it against the law to sell the genuine article. They were so good at making &quot;replicas&quot;, that even famous museums ended up with the copies in their collections.&nbsp; (One of the reasons most pottery now is incised with the potter&#039;s name.)&nbsp; The general style has also changed somewhat, to a more modern &quot;look.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>An article published by the <u>Journal of the Southwest</u> (Spring 2012), contains some of the more recent research results about Mata Ortiz pottery, and can be found by a web search for:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; Reconstructing a Miracle: New Perspectives</p><p>on Mata Ortiz Pottery Making &quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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