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K’axob
Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village
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208
Ceramic Petrography
Operation
1
Zone(s)
160
Deposit type
redeposited midden
Ceramic complex
Late Chaakk'ax
Ceramic type
Muxanal Red-on-Cream
Shape
Bowl
Rim diameter (cm)
34.00
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.75
Munsell slip color
2.5YR 4/8; 10YR 8/6
Munsell paste color
10YR 6/4
Aplastic inclusions
Calcite, micrite, polyquartz, dolomite, mudstone
Aplastic spacing
Close
Aplastic shape
Subround
Aplastic sorting
Well
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
Parallel
B-Fabric
Micritic
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Amorphous concentration features, rounded and disintegrating calcite, quartz
Calcite (%)
.23
Grog (%)
0
Quartz (%)
.06
Micrite (%)
.12
Oxide (%)
0
Other (%)
0
Voids (%)
.04
Paste (%)
.55