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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
Muxanal Red-on-Cream
Shape
Bowl
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.66
Munsell slip color
2.5YR 4/6
Munsell paste color
10YR 5/4
Aplastic inclusions
Calcite, chert, dolomite
Aplastic spacing
Close
Aplastic shape
Subround
Aplastic sorting
Poor
Aplastic boundaries
Distinct from b-fabric
Void pattern
Parallel
B-Fabric
Micritic
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Quartz, amorphous concentration features
Calcite (%)
.39
Grog (%)
0
Quartz (%)
0
Micrite (%)
.005
Oxide (%)
.005
Other (%)
0
Voids (%)
.11
Paste (%)
.49