Slide: IL_2_5

Lapita style. The pale brown clay contains remnant shelly fragments, up to 0.3 mm in length. Volcanic rock fragments contain mainly plagioclase crystals and tiny feldspar grains up to 0.5 mm in length. Subrounded ferruginized clasts and angular feldspar grains are about 0.2 mm in length. Contains wavy layers of red brown clay.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr462 - Exotic Tuam 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
4 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 lathwork, microlitic

Images

Tuam6_1 Tuam6_1
Sherd 6/1 from Tuam (Tuam). Slide IL_2_5 from I Lilley. x4 Magnification PPL (left) XPL (right). Scale bar: 0.5mm. High resolution image (user: Guest pwd: Guest) or full slide in VIMIPO. Imaged by K. Hardy and M. Leclerc, ANU.

Sherd: 6/1

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Tuam (Tuam)

Suspected origin site: ?

References:

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