Slide: IL_1_28

Sio style. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Pyroxene grains (<5%) are up to 0.5 mm in length. There are minor chert fragments, red ferruginized clasts and iron oxide grains. The clay is pale brown and contains abundant fine grained quartz and feldspar. Volcanic rock fragments are rare.

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 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 microlitic

Images

Sio16_9 Sio16_9
Sherd 16/9 from Sio (New Guinea). Slide IL_1_28 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: 16/9

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Sio (New Guinea)

Suspected origin site: Sio

References:

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