Slide: IL_2_35

Madang style sherd. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Pyroxene crystals are about 0.3 mm in length. Plagioclase crystals are about 0.1 mm in length. Volcanic rock fragments are hypohyaline in texture and consist of plagioclase laths and altered glass. The are some yellow brown rounded clay clasts, red clay clasts, subrounded iron oxides are about 0.2 mm in length. The clay is brown and contains fine quartz and ferruginized opaques.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr459 - Madang pyroxenic lithic

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 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 microphaneritic, microlitic, vitric

Images

Malai16_1 Malai16_1
Sherd 16/1 from Malai (Malai). Slide IL_2_35 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: 16/1

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Malai (Malai)

Suspected origin site: Madang

References:

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