Complementary scientific techniques for the study of Mesoamerican greenstone objects by Willow Knight, Faith Gantz, Matthew Carl, Marcus L. Young, Brigitte Kovacevich, Dawn Crawford, Elena Torok, Fran Baas

“…In our study, we examine a set of Mesoamerican jade and greenstone objects from the collection at the Dallas Museum of Art using multiple non-destructive techniques, including scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and handheld X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. …”
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