Slide: IL_1_39

Madang style sherd. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Plagioclase (5%), volcanic rock fragments (<5%), ferruginized pellets and accessory shell fragments are all less than 0.6 m in diameter. The clay is red brown and contains abundant fine grained quartz, feldspar and iron oxides.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr461 - Madang feldspathic hybrid

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
4 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 microlitic, microphaneritic

Images

Sio23_3 Sio23_3
Sherd 28/7 from Sio (New Guinea). Slide IL_1_39 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: 28/7

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Sio (New Guinea)

Suspected origin site: Madang

References:

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