Slide: IL_2_56

Madang style sherd. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Angular and subrounded feldspar grains, are generally 0.2 mm in diameter. Rock fragments are both volcanic and quartzitic. Volcanic rock fragments, up to 0.3 mm in length, generally contain plagioclase, opaques and minor pyroxene. A few grains consist of abundant iron oxide, altered glass and minor plagioclase. The quartz rock fragments are subrounded, about 0.2 mm across and are composed of small quartz mosaics.

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 1 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 microlitic, microphaneritic

Images

Malai28_4 Malai28_4
Sherd 28/4 from Malai (Malai). Slide IL_2_56 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: 28/4

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Malai (Malai)

Suspected origin site: Madang

References:

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