Slide: IL_1_18

Sio style. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. This dark red to black sherd contains abundant quartz and plagioclase up to 0.1 mm in length. There are some large pyroxene and volcanic rock fragments up to 0.4 mm in length but these grains are only accessory.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr483 - Huon feldspathic lithic

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 4 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 microphaneritic

Images

Sio4_2 Sio4_2
Sherd 4/2 from Sio (New Guinea). Slide IL_1_18 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: 4/2

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Sio (New Guinea)

Suspected origin site: Sio

References:

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