be the domain of different specialists is another success of this volume – historical, clinical, ethnographic and statistical approaches are interwoven effortlessly with the bioarchaeological data. It is the confidence with which such a breadth of innovative ways of thinking about extant and traditional bioarchaeological data are presented that makes this book worth reading – not just skimming the odd paper which fits ones’ own research interests – but in its entirety. There is a clear sense of strong editorial direction here in the selection and ordering of the contributions, and they work together as a whole on multiple levels. This publication marks a step change in the maturation of the field of the bioarchaeology of childhood and instils excitement about what we might collectively achieve in the future.

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母乳喂养：新的人类学方法

成为不同专家的领域是本书的另一个成功之处——历史、临床、人种学和统计方法与生物考古数据毫不费力地交织在一起。正是这种对现存和传统生物考古数据的创新思维方式所展现出的自信使这本书值得一读——不仅仅是略读适合自己研究兴趣的奇怪论文——而是全文。在稿件的选择和排序中，这里有一种强烈的编辑方向感，它们在多个层面上作为一个整体协同工作。该出版物标志着儿童生物考古学领域成熟的一步变化，并激发了我们对未来可能共同实现的目标的兴奋。