Discovery of the first evidence for Pre-Columbian sources of Maya Blue
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of scientists has established a link between contemporary indigenous knowledge and ancient sources of a mineral in the pigment known as Maya Blue. They have demonstrated that the palygorskite component in some of the pigment came from mines in two locations in Mexico's northern Yucatan Peninsula.