Girding the loins? direct evidence of the use of a medieval english parchment birthing girdle from biomolecular analysis

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• who: Sarah Fiddyment and collaborators from the The McDonald Institute, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK have published the paper: Girding the loins? Direct evidence of the use of a medieval English parchment birthing girdle from biomolecular analysis, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 18/05/2022
• what: The authors take up Olsan's challenge and attempt to provide identification of the stains on these samples. Such veneration makes it less likely that the girdle would have acquired a cereal protein from a monk's breakfast in the Refectory and more likely that these . . .
  

   

  

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