Youtube video on Classical Greek armor in the Philippines

Ian · 19th January 2021, 12:21 PM

The video is very poor quality, amateur Filipino work. It's basically a Powerpoint slideshow with (heavily accented) voice over. The low resolution images make everything look out of focus. It's unlikely this was made for local Philippines television--it would have been narrated in Tagalog, Cebuano, or another native language. I think it was made for youtube.

Despite this negative example, there are several very talented film makers in the Philippines.

mariusgmioc · 19th January 2021, 01:00 PM

Maybe going a little beyond the subject of this thread...

The only reliable method of dating iron objects is radiocarbon dating.
And this is very expensive and in most cases completely inaccessible.

Even more difficult is dating bronze objects. The few methods used (voltammetric, metalographic, radiocarbon) are very expensive, hardly accessible and do not give very reliable results.

At the same time, various techniques of aging metals are available that give results practically undistinguishable from natural aging processes.

So there should be no surprise that the antique metal objects market is literally flooded with fakes that in some cases can fool the most versed experts.

19th January 2021, 12:21 PM	#1
Ian Vikingsword Staff Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Aussie Bush Posts: 4,411	The video is very poor quality, amateur Filipino work. It's basically a Powerpoint slideshow with (heavily accented) voice over. The low resolution images make everything look out of focus. It's unlikely this was made for local Philippines television--it would have been narrated in Tagalog, Cebuano, or another native language. I think it was made for youtube. Despite this negative example, there are several very talented film makers in the Philippines.

19th January 2021, 01:00 PM	#2
mariusgmioc Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Austria Posts: 1,911	Maybe going a little beyond the subject of this thread... The only reliable method of dating iron objects is radiocarbon dating. And this is very expensive and in most cases completely inaccessible. Even more difficult is dating bronze objects. The few methods used (voltammetric, metalographic, radiocarbon) are very expensive, hardly accessible and do not give very reliable results. At the same time, various techniques of aging metals are available that give results practically undistinguishable from natural aging processes. So there should be no surprise that the antique metal objects market is literally flooded with fakes that in some cases can fool the most versed experts.