GELAR PAMERAN KERIS NASIONAL 2012 - short review

A. G. Maisey · 28th November 2012, 05:07 AM

My understanding of carbon dating is very limited, but I think it can only be used on organic substances, in addition to this, the time span involved with the keris is probably too small for carbon dating to be useful, then there are the technical problems involving contamination and the assumptions involving rate of decay. I doubt that carbon dating would be of any use for keris blades, and even if it were, I doubt that it would be relevant. To know the age of any particular keris might satisfy curiosity but that's about all.

satsujinken · 28th November 2012, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

My understanding of carbon dating is very limited, but I think it can only be used on organic substances, in addition to this, the time span involved with the keris is probably too small for carbon dating to be useful, then there are the technical problems involving contamination and the assumptions involving rate of decay. I doubt that carbon dating would be of any use for keris blades, and even if it were, I doubt that it would be relevant. To know the age of any particular keris might satisfy curiosity but that's about all.

regarding radio carbon dating, I got most of my information from here :

http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM...Cook-0305.html

it can be relevant, but not without flaws ...

but I am agree with you, that it will only satisfy curiosity and nothing else

A. G. Maisey · 28th November 2012, 08:40 AM

Thanks for that Satsu.

As I said, I know very little about this, and after doing a bit of googleizing, I understand even less.

I read some sites , that appear to be academically based and they tell me that radio carbon dating applies to organic substances, but then I read others that refer to radio carbon dating of iron.

I accept that iron can be carbon dated. I don't think I need to know more than that, this is not my area of interest.

28th November 2012, 05:07 AM	#1
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,056	My understanding of carbon dating is very limited, but I think it can only be used on organic substances, in addition to this, the time span involved with the keris is probably too small for carbon dating to be useful, then there are the technical problems involving contamination and the assumptions involving rate of decay. I doubt that carbon dating would be of any use for keris blades, and even if it were, I doubt that it would be relevant. To know the age of any particular keris might satisfy curiosity but that's about all.

28th November 2012, 08:40 AM	#3
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,056	Thanks for that Satsu. As I said, I know very little about this, and after doing a bit of googleizing, I understand even less. I read some sites , that appear to be academically based and they tell me that radio carbon dating applies to organic substances, but then I read others that refer to radio carbon dating of iron. I accept that iron can be carbon dated. I don't think I need to know more than that, this is not my area of interest.