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Insights into the Maya Blue Technology: Greenish Pellets from the Ancient City of La Blanca
Author(s) -
Doménech Antonio,
DoménechCarbó María Teresa,
VidalLorenzo Cristina,
de AgredosPascual María Luisa Vázquez
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201106562
Subject(s) - maya , context (archaeology) , pottery , sculpture , pellets , archaeology , art , visual arts , history , geology , oceanography
Historic chemistry : The discovery of a set of greenish pellets from ancient plaster at the La Blanca archaeological site (Guatemala) provides evidence that the Maya people used a material akin to Maya Blue also outside of pottery, murals, sculptures or religious context. Obviously, the Maya people developed different preparative strategies to obtain inorganic–organic hybrid materials.