Slide: IL_1_92

Pyroxene grains are colourless to pale green, angular to subrounded, about 0.3 mm across. There are minor of small angular quartz or feldspar, minor magnetite and minor shelly fragments. Minor volcanic rock fragments are set in the brown clay.

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
1 0 2 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 microlitic

Images

MT1_a MT1_a
Sherd Clay and temper mix from Mindiri (New Guinea). Slide IL_1_92 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: Clay and temper mix

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Mindiri (New Guinea)

Suspected origin site: Mindiri

References:

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