"Parchment production in the first millennium BC at Seglamen, Northern Ethiopia" by Phillipson (2013)

Phillipson, Laurel; "Parchment production in the first millennium BC at Seglamen, Northern Ethiopia", African Archaeological Review 30(3) (2013) 285–303.
doi:10.1007/s10437-013-9139-y (SpringerLink, restricted access)

Abstract:

Traditional Ethiopian and European processes of parchment manufacture and their associated tools are described and compared with artefacts recovered from an important pre-Aksumite site at Seglamen, in the highlands of northern Ethiopia. Many close similarities of tools used at Seglamen in both the earlier and later phases of the pre-Aksumite, from about 800 BC, to implements used by present-day Ethiopian scribes attest to the systematic production of parchment at Seglamen and to cultural continuity over a period of almost three millennia.