Research On A Mid 1st millennium BC High Carbon Sword, South India

[Mercenary]

Thank you again. But the question is how old are weapons made of high-carbon steel. Ultra-high-carbon steel. Forged into a long sword.

[Milogow360]

Originally Posted by Mercenary

Thank you again. But the question is how old are weapons made of high-carbon steel. Ultra-high-carbon steel. Forged into long sword.

The site of that place is around 6th century BC as mentioned in the article. Several megalithic sites in the South are dated around that time.

The other megalithic dagger examples I gave with hilts designs that are classical as well.

[Mercenary]

Oops... I got it. The sword was found by a non-archaeologist (one of the authors - R. Ramesh) at the bottom of some "pit" without any research of this pit itself or the accompanying material (we were only told about "an urn enclosed with a capstone"). But since the megalithic burials in this area "dated to the sixth century BCE or earlier" so this pit was dated to 6th century BCE too. How graceful.
The article does not meet the standards of scientific archaeological research, although one of the authors (K. Rajan) is a respected archaeologist. Just pit, just sword, just an archaeologist-enthusiast, but as result we have the oldest sword made of wootz.
Just very sad. Hope I am wrong.