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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)
122
Deposit type
plaster floor
Ceramic complex
Early K'atabche'k'ax
Ceramic type
Sierra Red
Shape
Bowl
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.55
Munsell slip color
2.5YR 5/6
Munsell paste color
7.5YR 5/6
Aplastic inclusions
Calcite, grog, quartz, oxides, chert, polyquartz
Aplastic spacing
Single
Aplastic shape
Subround
Aplastic sorting
Moderate
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
Cross-hatched
B-Fabric
Micritic
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Diffusing and rounded calcite, oxides, amorphous concentration features