Insights into the Maya Blue technology: Greenish pellets from the ancient City of la Blanca

Abstract

Historic chemistry: The discovery of a set of greenish pellets from ancient plaster at the La Blanca archaeological site (Guatemala) provides evidence that the Maya people used a material akin to Maya Blue also outside of pottery, murals, sculptures or religious context. Obviously, the Maya people developed different preparative strategies to obtain inorganic-organic hybrid materials. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.