Slide: IL_1_68

Sio style. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Pyroxene grains (<5%) are up to 0.3 mm in length. Angular quartz and feldspar grains make up about 10% of the sherd. These grains are generally small, <0.1 mm but range up to 0.2 mm. Opaque grains, (<5%) are subrounded and up to 0.4 mm in length. There are some minor rock fragments. The clay is red brown.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr486 - Huon feldspathic 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 2 3 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 microlitic, microphaneritic

Images

Sio28_12 Sio28_12
Sherd 28/12 from Sio (New Guinea). Slide IL_1_68 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: 28/12

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Sio (New Guinea)

Suspected origin site: Sio

References:

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