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orion Fw: DNA hide test possibilities

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  From: smalling@connect.net
  Subject: Re: orion Re: DNA hide tests 
  Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:46:21 -0600 
  To: orion@mscc.huji.ac.il


> Dear D.D. Stuhlman,
> 
> You make some good points. I would like to know if 
hides 
> were indeed stockpiled, how long would the velum have 
> remained pliable and ( smooth things :>)) easy-to-write 

> on. I don't think the writers of the KQ scrolls would 
> have written on 200-year-old velum...or would they?
> Is there data to show that the hides were stockpiled?
> Although there was trading, and since we know of 
various 
> trade routes, tribal hierarchies, Nuamis (sp?),camps, 
> etc. wouldn't getting a better handle on the culture be 

> interesting?. From where were hides imported (perhaps 
> from the elusive sea-peoples)?.. DNA matching could 
> reveal a host of things. Was the "liturgical or 
> theological state" of the hide/animal important.. if 
> so,would this delimit our search?
> 
> Your points (stockpiling, trading) could also apply to 
> C14 dating n'est-ce pas?
> 
> Elmer Smalling III
> 
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