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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)
88
Deposit type
Burial
Ceramic complex
Late K'atabche'k'ax
Ceramic type
Sierra Red
Shape
Bowl
Rim diameter (cm)
36.00
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.75
Munsell slip color
2.5YR 6/8
Munsell paste color
5YR 5/4
Aplastic inclusions
Quartz, grog
Aplastic spacing
Single to double
Aplastic shape
Round
Aplastic sorting
Well
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
Cross-hatched, clay platelets visible
B-Fabric
Streams
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Grog, oxides
Calcite (%)
.01
Grog (%)
.24
Quartz (%)
.09
Micrite (%)
0
Oxide (%)
0
Other (%)
0
Voids (%)
.17
Paste (%)
.49