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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)
87
Deposit type
Burial
Ceramic complex
Early K'atabche'k'ax
Ceramic type
Joventud Red
Shape
Bowl
Rim diameter (cm)
22.00
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.52
Munsell slip color
2.5YR 4/8
Munsell paste color
7.5YR 6/6
Aplastic inclusions
Quartz, grog, small calcite, amorphous concentration features
Aplastic spacing
Double
Aplastic shape
Round
Aplastic sorting
Poor
Aplastic boundaries
Distinct from b-fabric
Void pattern
Parallel
B-Fabric
Streams, micritic
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Grog, quartz
Calcite (%)
.04
Grog (%)
.1
Quartz (%)
.12
Micrite (%)
0
Oxide (%)
.03
Other (%)
0
Voids (%)
.04
Paste (%)
.66