The occurrence of a titanium dioxide/silica white pigment on wooden Andean qeros: a cultural and chronological marker

The occurrence of a titanium dioxide/silica white pigment on wooden Andean qeros: a cultural and chronological marker

Abstract A white pigment found on a sub-set of polychromed wooden Andean ritual drinking cups called qeros has been characterized by X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy as consisting principally of cristobalite (SiO2), anatase (TiO2), and α-quartz (SiO2). This u...

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Main Authors: Ellen Howe, Emily Kaplan, Richard Newman, James H. Frantz, Ellen Pearlstein, Judith Levinson, Odile Madden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-07-01
Series:Heritage Science
Subjects:
XRD
XRF
Raman spectroscopy
Qero
Colonial
Andes
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-018-0207-0

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