Slide: IL_2_36

Madang style. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Angular quartz and feldspar grains (about 10%), Minor pyroxene grains are all <0.2 mm in length. There are some minor volcanic rock fragments which contain plagioclase, iron oxides and altered glass. Opaque minerals range in size from 0.1 to 0.5 mm in length, and there is less than 5% of those. The clay is red brown.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr460 - Madang feldspathic 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 2 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 microphaneritic, microlitic

Images

Malai16_2 Malai16_2
Sherd 16/2 from Malai (Malai). Slide IL_2_36 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: 16/2

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Malai (Malai)

Suspected origin site: Madang

References:

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