I think it would be really interesting for us to hear from professionals in the various sciences that could help with VM research or at least inform member research here. We have already explored cryptography, linguistics, medieval studies and medieval manuscript studies, paleography, etc.
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Login to view. for an interesting article that discusses the difference between archaeobotany and paleoethnobotany and paleobotany). Sadly, the person we would most likely have wanted to hear from, Ulrich Willerding, died in 2021 (You are not allowed to view links.
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Andreas G. Heiss (You are not allowed to view links.
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I don't think any of them are members here or have any personal interest in the VM but their current and future research and that of others in their field may provide insight regarding medieval plants and plant knowledge that could be used, at least eventually, as a cross-reference for VM plant identification. Well, at least, that would be the hope.