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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
Chicago Orange
Shape
Bowl
Rim diameter (cm)
34.00
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.85
Munsell slip color
5YR 6/6
Munsell paste color
5YR 5/6
Aplastic inclusions
Quartz, grog, calcite, oxide
Aplastic spacing
Single to double
Aplastic shape
Round
Aplastic sorting
Moderate
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
None
B-Fabric
Streams
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Diffusing and rounded calcite, amorphous concentration features, oxides
Calcite (%)
.03
Grog (%)
.1
Quartz (%)
.07
Micrite (%)
0
Oxide (%)
0
Other (%)
.1
Voids (%)
.05
Paste (%)
.65