Shades of blue: non-invasive spectroscopic investigations of Maya blue pigments. From laboratory mock-ups to Mesoamerican codices
Abstract Maya blue is a hybrid pigment where an organic component, indigo, is incorporated in a porous clay. Despite its widespread use in the Mesoamerican artistic production and numerous studies devoted to understand the type of interactions between indigo and the host framework, its technology ha...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2020-01-01
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Series: | Heritage Science |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-019-0345-z |