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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)
208
Deposit type
sherd-lined pit
Ceramic complex
Early Chaakk'ax
Ceramic type
Chicago Orange
Shape
Bowl
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.62
Munsell slip color
5YR 6/8
Munsell paste color
5YR 5/8
Aplastic inclusions
Quartz, grog, oxides, micrite, calcite
Aplastic spacing
Single
Aplastic shape
Round
Aplastic sorting
Moderate
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
Cross-hatched
B-Fabric
Streams
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Amorphous concentration features, grog, rounded calcite
Calcite (%)
.14
Grog (%)
.06
Quartz (%)
.1
Micrite (%)
0
Oxide (%)
.03
Other (%)
0
Voids (%)
.06
Paste (%)
.62