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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
Vase
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.70
Munsell slip color
2.5YR 4/8
Munsell paste color
5YR 6/6
Aplastic inclusions
Quartz, clay pellets, oxides, calcite, polyquartz
Aplastic spacing
Double
Aplastic shape
Subround
Aplastic sorting
Moderate
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
None
B-Fabric
Micritic
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Merging calcite
Calcite (%)
.11
Grog (%)
.09
Quartz (%)
.04
Micrite (%)
0
Oxide (%)
.03
Other (%)
.01
Voids (%)
.09
Paste (%)
.63