Slide: IL_1_61

Sio style sherd. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Pyroxene grains range in size from 0.1 up to 0.7 mm in length. There are some ferruginized clay pellets, up to 2 mm in length. Minor plagioclase and iron oxide minerals are also present. The sherd also contains abundant fine grained quartz grains, less than 0.1 mm

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 2 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 vitric, microlitic

Images

Sio28_5 Sio28_5
Sherd 28/5 from Sio (New Guinea). Slide IL_1_61 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: 28/5

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Sio (New Guinea)

Suspected origin site: Huon

References:

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