Mimbres pottery has added a fascinating dimension to southwestern archaeology, but it has also led to the partial or total destruction of most Mimbres sites. The Mimbres Foundation, in one of the few modern investigations of a Mimbres pueblo, excavated the Mattocks site, containing about 180 surface rooms in addition to pit structures. Mimbres Life and Society details the Mattocks site's architecture and artifacts, with 160 figures, showing more than 400 photographs of painted vessels from the site.

Patricia A. Gilman is a professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.

Steven A. LeBlanc is retired as director of collections at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.