Breastfeeding: new anthropological approaches

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.