Abstract
AbstractFor over 50 years Maya Blue has been an unsolved problem in the manufacture of ancient pigments. It can be reproduced with several procedures using palygorskite, indigo and heat; however we do not know how the Mayans made this pigment. Interpretation of ethnohistoric data allows us to deduce that Prehispanic, and even Spanish Colonial, procedures for manufacturing indigo may produce Maya blue if clay is added during the process.We present ethnohistoric and archaeological evidence to support this hypothesis and following the proposed procedures, Maya Blue is reproduced in the laboratory. Microscopic examination and chemical microscopy are applied to the synthetic Maya Blue to characterize and compare it with original Mayan samples.
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