Many scholars wonder when and where thousands of manuscripts from medieval times came into being. North Carolina State University professor Timothy Stinson has announced that the origins of these mauscripts can be revealed through DNA. The parchment that many of these documents were written on came from animal skin, and this professor is working on techniques to extract and analyze the DNA which is inside of these skins which will create a database that determines when and where a particular document was written. Stinson stated that this "will also allow us to trace the trade route of parchments" throughout the medieval world. This is a great achievement that will provide tons of data on the evolution of the book industry throughout the middle ages.
link:http://www.macroevolution.net/manuscripts.html
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