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Straying from the Flock: A Stable Isotope Analysis of a Sheep Membrane Condom from Colonial Maryland (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brigid Ogden. Elizabeth Tarulis. Taylor Bowden-Gray.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents a stable isotope analysis of a membrane condom from the colonial Oxon Hill Manor Site (18PR175) in Maryland to shed light on the geographic origins of the artifact. Previous analysis using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) identified the condom as having been made from a sheep. The addition of stable carbon and nitrogen...