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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)
63
Deposit type
midden
Ceramic complex
Early Chaakk'ax
Ceramic type
Pital Cream
Shape
Bowl
Rim diameter (cm)
18.00
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.60
Munsell slip color
7.5YR 8/3; 2.5YR 5/8
Munsell paste color
7.5YR 6/6
Aplastic inclusions
Micrite, quartz
Aplastic spacing
Close
Aplastic shape
Subround
Aplastic sorting
Well
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
None
B-Fabric
Micritic
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Diffusing calcite
Calcite (%)
.05
Grog (%)
0
Quartz (%)
.11
Micrite (%)
.07
Oxide (%)
0
Other (%)
.04
Voids (%)
.01
Paste (%)
.72