Slide: IL_2_39

Sio style. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Pyroxene crystals (<5%) are generally 0.2 mm in length and there are some large ones up to 0.5 mm in length. There is some altered volcanic rock fragments up to 0.5 mm in length, contain thin plagioclase crystals and yellow brown altered glass. Opaque minerals (5%) are less than 0.2 mm in length. There are some red ferruginized clasts up to 0.4 m in length and brown ferruginized clay clasts up to 0.1 mm in diameter. The clay is a pale brown.

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 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 microlitic, lathwork, microphaneritic

Images

Malai16_5_a Malai16_5_a
Sherd 16/5 from Malai (Malai). Slide IL_2_39 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: 16/5

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Malai (Malai)

Suspected origin site: Sio

References:

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