[TheForge] question concerning metalworking timeline

[CGRAF]

On 3/7/2012 11:20 AM, terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
>
> would anyone know of any series of books that give the metalworking time
> line that one may use to authenicate the time period of a piece of
> metalwork?
>
> certain metalworking techniques did not appear until xx year so anything
> made having using that technique could not have been made before xx
> year.
>
> alloy xyzzy did not appear until year 70 in he year of lord zork so
> nothing could be made with alloy xyzzy before that year.
>
>
>
That would be a real handy piece of work.
I'd  bet it exists in the form of field notes,made up as the case arose 
on individual pieces.
Something coming close to covering every alloy and technique would be 
doctoral thesis territory, I think.

Mike Graf