Slide: FP_1_44

Low feldspar variant. Indigenous Sigatoka sherds. 1993 excavated samples.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr341f - Sigatoka quartzose F

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%
Cal. QuartzFeldspar Pyroxene Amphibole Opaques OlivineBiotite Muscovite Epidote Garnet/ Spinel Ig./Met. Rocks Sed. Rocks Grog Lithics
0 3 2 4 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 microlitic, vitric, microphaneritic, argillitic, silstone, chert, quartzite, felsitic

Images

Sigatoka_v1_p16_a Sigatoka_v1_p16_a
Sherd v1-p16-a from Sigatoka (Viti Levu). Slide FP_1_44 from Petchey Collection, Auckland University. x4 Magnification PPL (left) XPL (right). Scale bar: 0.5mm. High resolution image in VIMIPO (user: Guest pwd: Guest). Imaged by K. Hardy and M. Leclerc, ANU.

Sherd: v1-p16-a

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Sigatoka (Viti Levu)

Suspected origin site: Sigatoka

References:

Petchey MA Thesis 1995 (Petchey, F.)