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Maya Blue: Alternative Hypotheses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Anna O. Shepard
Anna O. Shepard*
Affiliation:
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Boulder, Colo.
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Abstract

Although the stability of the pigment, Maya blue, indicates to Gettens that the blue colorant as well as the attapulgite clay base of the pigment is inorganic, the optical properties and thermal behavior of the pigment suggest the alternative hypothesis that Maya blue is a clay-organic complex with an organic colorant in an inorganic base of attapulgite clay.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , April 1962 , pp. 565 - 566
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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