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Chipped Stone Tools
Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Square
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Lithic type
Oval biface
Raw material
Northern Belizean chert (Colha)
Condition
Not altered
Cortex
Absent
Scar type
Shallow scars truncated by deep scars
Tool part
Distal fragment
Polish
Present on ridges only
Striations
None
Use-wear
Bend break and step-flaking
Length (mm)
80.00
Width (mm)
48.00
Thickness (mm)
21.00
Weight (g)
106.50
Ceramic Petrography
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Ceramic type
Hillbank Red
Shape
Bowl
Rim diameter (cm)
30.00
Maximum thickness (cm)
0.88
Munsell slip color
2.5YR 4/8
Munsell paste color
10YR 5/6
Aplastic inclusions
Quartz (few), oxides
Aplastic spacing
More than double
Aplastic shape
Subround
Aplastic sorting
Poor
Aplastic boundaries
Merging with b-fabric
Void pattern
Vughs
B-Fabric
Micritic
Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)
Grog, oxides, quartz, amorphous concentration features, merging calcite
Calcite (%)
0
Grog (%)
0
Quartz (%)
.035
Micrite (%)
0
Oxide (%)
.005
Other (%)
0
Voids (%)
0
Paste (%)
.96
Pottery Vessel
Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Square
Deposit type
Vessel Number

117

Specific context
Burial 13-2
Ceramic complex
Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)
Type
Dos Arroyos Orange Polychrome
Variety
Dos Arroyos
Form
bowl
Secondary characteristics
circumferential lines (eroded)
Kill hole?
Yes
Cross motif?
No
Position
Percentage of vessel
< 50%
Number of sherds
46
Rim diameter (cm)
42.0
Height (cm)
8.4
Weight (g)
1865.2
Comments

Bowl with rounded and incurved sides, a ring base with a drill hole, and a direct, rounded rim. The bowl is slipped on the interior. There is a dark red circumferential line and seven eroded circles painted around the rim. Lines are painted below the rim in 0.4 cm widths and 1-cm separation. The paste is brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and has large rounded inclusions. The vessel was inverted over the cranium of a young adult burial.

Comments

Construction Phase 2 after the pottery associated with Burials 13-1 and 13-2 were exposed but before the upper wall feature of Phase 3 had been removed, view to the east (note incorrect orientation of north arrow).


Burial
Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Vessel number(s)
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Sex
Number of vessels
1
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

This is the upper view of burial 13-2. The head of the extended young adult male is covered by vessel 117.


Illustration
Record details
Illustration number
Operation
Zone(s)
Image content
Date modified
5/28/03
Comments

Rim profile of Vessel 117, a Dos Arroyos Orange Polychrome: Dos Arroyos Variety bowl with circumferential lines.

Illustration
2 out of 2
Record details
Illustration number
Operation
Zone(s)
Image content
Date modified
5/28/03
Comments

This is the lower view of burial 13-2. An extended young adult male is depicted.

Illustration
1 out of 2
Record details
Illustration number
Operation
Zone(s)
Image content
Date modified
5/28/03
Comments

This is the upper view of burial 13-2. The head of the extended young adult male is covered by vessel 117.