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Discovery of Jadeite-Jade in Guatemala Confirmed by
Non-Destructive Raman Microscopy

Résumé

The discovery in 1952 of some river pebbles of jadeite-jade on the North side of the Motagua River Valley (MRV) in
Guatemala strongly suggested that at least part of the long-lost geological source of Mesoamerican jade was local.
Another river pebble has been discovered, but this new one provides two archaeologically and geologically significant differences: (1) it is the first ever to be found on the South side of the MRV; (2) it presents a new different petrological kind of jade. The confirmation of the mineral species jadeite was achieved with this rough piece of rock without any kind of sample preparation using only a Raman Microscope (RM) which is now a reliable polyvalent non-destructive technique for archaeometry.
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halshs-00347716, version 1 (16-12-2008)

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Aïcha Gendron Badou, David C. Smith, François Gendron. Discovery of Jadeite-Jade in Guatemala Confirmed by
Non-Destructive Raman Microscopy. Journal of Archaeological Science, 2002, 29, pp.837-851. ⟨halshs-00347716⟩
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