[Aztlan] Maya Blue Discovery

[Bruce Rogers]

Listeros,

While the article is quite exciting (for a geologist anyway), the 
photograph attached to the on-line site is a lovely mosaic mask made 
of turquoise and shell with no Maya Blue pigment.  The mask itself 
may be from an area with Aztec-Mixtec affinities(?).

Cheers,
  Bruce Rogers, earth scientist on a good day

>
>In a follow up to the discovery of the use of "palygorskite" for 
>making Maya Blue, Spanish researchers have traced the route of the 
>Maya to its source in the Yucatan. They analyzed various clays in the 
>Yucatan. They found the clay in several locations in the Yucatan 
>within 40 km of Uxmal. Their article is posted in Archaeometry Journal.
>
>Science Daily has the story here;
>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420085049.htm