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Maya Blue-A New Look at an Old Controversy.
Linda Roundhill (Arts and Antiquities Conservation, Seattle)
Maya Blue is the bright blue pigment produced in pre-Columbian times by
the Maya of Middle America. Its intensity of color and peculiar resistance
to degradation had confounded scientists for decades. This poster is an
outline of a previously published paper that reports the excellent analytical
work of various scientists who unlocked the secrets of the composition
and unusual manufacture of Maya Blue, and the subsequent dispute which
arose between scientists and anthropologists over the results.
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