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K’axob
Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village
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Ceramic Petrography
Operation
10
Zone(s)
5
Deposit type
plaster floor
Ceramic complex
Terminal K'atabche'k'ax
Ceramic type
Sapote Striated
Shape
Unknown
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.60
Munsell paste color
7.5YR 5/3
Aplastic inclusions
Calcite, micrite, oxides, mudstone
Aplastic spacing
Very close
Aplastic shape
Subangular
Aplastic sorting
Moderate
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
Parallel
B-Fabric
Micritic
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Diffusing and rounded calcite, oxides
Calcite (%)
.41
Grog (%)
0
Quartz (%)
.01
Micrite (%)
0
Oxide (%)
0
Other (%)
.02
Voids (%)
.05
Paste (%)
.51