Slide: IL_2_61

Sio style. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Pyroxene crystals (<5%) are pale green to brown widely scattered and about 0.3 mm across. Volcanic rock fragments (<5%) are angular and up to 0.5 mm across. They contain plagioclase laths, opaques and altered glass. Red brown clay clasts up to 1 mm across contain small crystals of plagioclase and iron oxide. Rounded iron oxide grains make tp less than 2% of the sherd. The clay is red brown.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr274 - Huon pyroxenic

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 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 lathwork, vitric, microphaneritic

Images

Malai28_9 Malai28_9
Sherd 28/9 from Malai (Malai). Slide IL_2_61 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: 28/9

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Malai (Malai)

Suspected origin site: Sio

References:

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