Slide: IL_1_12

Sio style. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Pyroxene grains (<5%) are up to 0.5 mm in length. There are some large clasts more than 1 mm in length which resemble previous pot fragments. There are some red to black ferruginized grains and volcanic rock fragments. There is a small amount of fine grained quartz and feldspar in the brown clay.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr274 - Huon pyroxenic

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 1 1 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 microphaneritic, microlitic

Images

Sio6_12 Sio6_12
Sherd 6/12 from Sio (New Guinea). Slide IL_1_12 from I Lilley. 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: 6/12

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Sio (New Guinea)

Suspected origin site: Sio

References:

Prehistoric exchange in the Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea (Lilley, I.)