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K’axob
Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village
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Ceramic Petrography
Operation
1
Zone(s)
57
Deposit type
redeposited midden
Ceramic complex
Late Chaakk'ax
Ceramic type
Joventud Red
Shape
Jar
Rim diameter (cm)
14.00
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.65
Munsell slip color
2.5YR 3/4
Munsell paste color
10YR 6/6
Aplastic inclusions
Calcite, oxides, polyquartz, chert, micrite, clay pellets
Aplastic spacing
Close to single
Aplastic shape
Subangular
Aplastic sorting
Poor
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
Parallel
B-Fabric
Micritic, rounded calcite
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Merging and diffusing calcite, burned, oxides
Calcite (%)
.26
Grog (%)
0
Quartz (%)
0
Micrite (%)
0
Oxide (%)
0
Other (%)
.02
Voids (%)
.05
Paste (%)
.66