Slide: IL_1_97

CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Lakakulu clay used by Sio potters. Pyroxene is pale green, angular, and dominates. The clay is brown and contains small feldspar grains, less than 0.1 mm across. There are minor ferruginized clay and feldspar clasts up to 1 mm across. Opaque minerals are small a minority. There is a trace of volcanic rock fragments containing feldspar and small magnetite crystals.

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 0 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 microlitic

Images

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Sherd Clay from Sio (New Guinea). Slide IL_1_97 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

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Sio (New Guinea)

Suspected origin site: Sio

References:

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