Parchment
TL;DR
Parchment - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative
Traditionally said to have been invented in Pergamon as a response to the cessation of papyrus imports from Egypt. Real date probably more than 1000 years earlier.
What Had To Exist First
Enabling Materials
- Papyrus
Independent Emergence
Evidence of inevitability—this invention emerged independently in multiple locations:
Ancient Anatolia
Parallel development
Biological Patterns
Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread: