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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)
115
Deposit type
Burial
Ceramic complex
Early K'atabche'k'ax
Ceramic type
Chicago Orange
Shape
Tecomate
Rim diameter (cm)
13.00
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.52
Munsell slip color
7.5YR 7/3
Munsell paste color
10YR 3/1
Aplastic inclusions
Calcite, micrite, oxides, quartz
Aplastic spacing
Close
Aplastic shape
Angular
Aplastic sorting
Poor
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
Parallel
B-Fabric
Micritic
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Streams and few rounded calcite, amorphous concentration features
Calcite (%)
.45
Grog (%)
0
Quartz (%)
0
Micrite (%)
0
Oxide (%)
0
Other (%)
.01
Voids (%)
.06
Paste (%)
.48