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K’axob
Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village
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Ceramic Petrography
Operation
12
Zone(s)
52
Deposit type
Burial
Ceramic complex
Late K'atabche'k'ax
Ceramic type
Sierra Red
Shape
Jar
Rim diameter (cm)
17.00
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.46
Munsell slip color
2.5Y 4/6
Munsell paste color
5YR 5/6
Aplastic inclusions
Calcite, micrite, quartz, oxides
Aplastic spacing
Single
Aplastic shape
Subround
Aplastic sorting
Poor
Aplastic boundaries
Diffusing
Void pattern
None
B-Fabric
Streams
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Grog, oxides
Calcite (%)
.06
Grog (%)
.18
Quartz (%)
.08
Micrite (%)
0
Oxide (%)
.02
Other (%)
.1
Voids (%)
.06
Paste (%)
.5