A richly integrative, masterful biocultural approach to childhood in the past, in which social science theory and historical, archaeological, and ethnographic details converse with quantitative paleopathology and demography. These studies are an excellent inauguration of a field of study concerned with humanizing the skeletons of a universally vulnerable, resilient, and transcendent class of people. Michael Blakey, The College of William and Mary

A refreshing and well-timed volume. Combines archaeological, historical, social, and paleopathological evidence and demonstrates the merits...