I am, in fact, aware that birch trees are ubiquitous in Europe and Russia. Sites of manufacture and distribution are a different matter. I don't suppose scribes just went into their nearby woods and scraped off some bark for their next Gospel project.

On 20 October 2014 14:11, Ingo Strauch <ingo.strauch@fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Do you think, there aren't enough birch trees in Russia?

Am 20.10.14 14:02, schrieb Dominik Wujastyk:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/world/europe/where-mud-is-archaeological-gold-russian-history-grew-on-trees.html?referrer=

etched? Doesn't seem likely, and doesn't look like it in the photo. Kashmir was a major source of birchbark at this period. Could the Novgorod scrolls be on bark from Kashmir?
Dominik Wujastyk, from Android phone.

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