Skip to main content
DIG
|
COTSEN INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY PRESS
K’axob
Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village
Main navigation
Book
Tour
Data
Chapter Resources
Maps
Timeline
206
Ceramic Petrography
Operation
1
Zone(s)
59
Deposit type
midden
Ceramic complex
Early Chaakk'ax
Ceramic type
Joventud Red
Shape
Bowl
Rim diameter (cm)
36.00
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.91
Munsell slip color
2.5YR 3/6
Munsell paste color
5YR 5/6
Aplastic inclusions
Calcite, grog, polyquartz
Aplastic spacing
Single
Aplastic shape
Round
Aplastic sorting
Moderate
Aplastic boundaries
Distinct from b-fabric
Void pattern
Streams around aplastics
B-Fabric
Micritic
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Diffusing and rounded calcite, clay pellets
Calcite (%)
.27
Grog (%)
.17
Quartz (%)
.01
Micrite (%)
.01
Oxide (%)
0
Other (%)
.01
Voids (%)
.06
Paste (%)
.47