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This paper presents the micromorphological and compositional characteristics of architectural plasters from Lamanai dating from ca. 100 BC to the sixteenth century AD, as well as non-archaeological local raw materials. The study made use of petrography and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for the analyses of 45 samples.
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We thank Kevin Reeves and Philip Connolly, Archaeological Science Laboratories, UCL, for the assistance provided for the analysis of plasters. We are also grateful to Dr. Linda Howie, University of Western Ontario, Dr. Scott Simmons, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Dr. James Aimers, State University of New York at Geneseo, as well as Dr. David Pendergast, for their assistance with the sampling and the interpretation of the data. We also thank the Institute of Archaeology, NICH, Belize, for providing sampling and export permits of archaeological material. We finally thank CONACYT – Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Mexico – and the Institute of Archaeology and Graduate School, UCL, for the funding provided.
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Villasenor, I., Graham, E., Siddall, R., Price, C.A. (2011). The Characterisation of Lime Plasters from Lamanai, Belize: A Diachronic Approach to the Study of Architectural Practices. In: Turbanti-Memmi, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7_47
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