Girding the loins? Direct evidence of the use of a medieval parchment birthing girdle from biomolecular analysis
Sarah Fiddyment, Natalie Jayne Goodison, Elma Brenner, Stefania Signorello, Kierri Price, Matthew J. Collins
This study uses a dry non-invasive method to extract and analyze palaeoproteomic evidence from a medieval parchment birth girdle, revealing biomolecular traces of use during childbirth.
Royal Society Open Science · Mar 1, 2021Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology