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The Grim Story of Maya Blue - UPDATES

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« on: April 20, 2009, 07:03:16 pm »

   






Material contained in this Maya three-footed pottery bowl dating from about 1400 has helped scientists unlock the mysteries of a pigment called Maya blue used for about a millennium by Mesoamerican peoples.

Anthropologists from Wheaton College in Illinois and the Field Museum in Chicago discovered how the ancient Maya produced this pigment and the role it played in important rituals at a famous Maya site in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Maya blue -- a vivid, somewhat turquoise-colored pigment -- was used to decorate pottery, figurines and murals that has long mystified scientists.

The bowl was in the Field Museum's collection.
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