Slide: IL_1_21

Madang style. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Subrounded shelly fragments up to 0.3 mm in diameter make up less than 10%. Quartz, chert and feldspar grains (<10%) are all less than 0.2 mm in length. There are some dark red-black ferruginized clasts up to 0.5 mm and the clay is brown.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr458 - Huon calcareous

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
5 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 na

Images

Sio16_2 Sio16_2
Sherd 16/2 from Sio (New Guinea). Slide IL_1_21 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: 16/2

None

Site: Sio (New Guinea)

Suspected origin site: Madang

References:

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