sempeh (Hitu) (1000-0 BP)

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Bowls. Smaller smaller are called tajela. Sempeh are made differently by different villages, some use coils, while others use paddle and anvil. Resin added.


vessel examples
Example vessels/sherds. British Museum© The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. Available here.

Parent ware:

recent Hitu (1000 - 0 BP)


Examples in collections (and other external links):

The British Museum


None (0) Minor (1) Few (2) Common (3) Frequent (4) Major (5) Very Dominant (6)
0% 0-5% 5-15% 15-30 % 30-50% 50-70% 70-100%

Fabrics:


Name Cal. QuartzFeldspar Pyroxene Amphibole Opaques OlivineBiotite Muscovite Epidote Garnet/ SpinelIg./Met. Rocks Sed. Rocks Grog Lithics/ Region
tpr76 4 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 vitric
Ambon hybrid 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 Maluku
tpr78 0 3 3 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 6 0 0 vitric
Ambon-Haruku rhyolite 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 Maluku