Accession No
1960.210 B.2
Description
Sliced and analysed thin section of a ground stone axe. Highly altered lava, possibly rhyolite.
Place
Americas; Central America; Belize; Cayo District; Xunantunich
Period
Postclassic Maya
Source
MacKie, Euan Wallace [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1960.210 B.2; 198.XHZ [Excavation no.]; 249.XHZ [Excavation Small Finds no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Lava; ?Rhyolite
Local Term
Measurements
76mm
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Card says, 'could come from same group as 1960.293 A (or possibly 1960.197 C) in shear zone.'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Description (Labels & Markings)
The slide is marked '249' and 'XHZ' in pencil and 'Ground stone axe, (see 60.210.B) - Returned to Brit. Honduras' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Thin section taken from 1960.210 B.1.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (Field collection)
Structure A-15. Phase 3; baulk trenches SE2/SE3, lowest of black rubbish tip layer; context Theta-s. Excavated by Euan MacKie, Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras 1959-1960, funded by the Crowther-Beynon Fund. See archive (FR3/2/3) for correspondence, analysis, etc.
Event Date 1959
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card notes: 'Phase III (occupation level) equivalent to Benque Viejo IV (see Thompson [(1924). 'Late Ceramic Horizons at Benque Viejo, British Honduras'. Contributions to American Archaeology and History, no. 35. Carnegie Institution Washington]).'
Event Date 1960
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Ground stone axe; fragmentary. Sliced and analysed: highly altered lava, rhyolite(?).
Event Date 1/6/1960
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (References)
MacKie, E. W. (1985). Excavations at Xunantunich and Pomona, Belize, in 1959-60. BAR International Series 251. pp.137, fig. 17, no. 181.
Event Date 1985
Author: Jodi Zhang
Description (Physical description)
Sliced and analysed thin section of a ground stone axe. Highly altered lava, rhyolite(?).
Event Date 20/8/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
FM:281029
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