Meteoritic Iron in Javanese Kris Daggers: A Comparative XRF Study Performed on Original Daggers and Newly Forged Test Objects
Abstract
A selection of seven Kris daggers from central Java was investigated by handheld XRF spectroscopy. The preliminary results support the assumption that the krisses possibly were made by an admixture of metal from the Prambanan iron meteorite.
- Publication:
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79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
- Pub Date:
- August 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016LPICo1921.6168B