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Ceramic Petrography

Operation

11

Zone(s)

23

Deposit type

steps/staircase

Ceramic complex

Late K'atabche'k'ax

Ceramic type

Chicago Orange

Shape

Bowl

Rim diameter (cm)

16.00

Maximum thickness (cm)

0.94

Munsell slip color

7.5YR 7/4

Munsell paste color

7.5YR 7/4

Aplastic inclusions

Calcite, oxides, micrite

Aplastic spacing

Very close

Aplastic shape

Subangular

Aplastic sorting

Poor

Aplastic boundaries

Merging with b-fabric

Void pattern

None

B-Fabric

Micritic

Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)

Diffusing and merging calcite, oxides, amorphous concentration features

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Pottery Vessel

Record details

Operation

10

Zone(s)

23

Deposit type

Burial

Vessel Number

124

Specific context

Burial 10-3

Ceramic complex

Terminal K'atabche'k'ax

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Early Nohalk'ax

Type

Aguila Orange

Variety

Aguila

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

No

Cross motif?

No

Position

inverted

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

12

Rim diameter (cm)

28.0

Height (cm)

6.1

Weight (g)

820.6

Comments

A flanged Aguila Orange bowl with slip on both the interior and exterior surfaces. The base diameter is 7 cm. The vessel was found inverted over the skull of an adult, extended interment. The burial apparently occurred on the cusp of the Terminal KÕatabcheÕkÕax to Early NohalkÕax transition.