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Foreword
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Mother/Infant Nexus in Archaeology and Anthropology
Section 1. Infant and maternal health in bioarchaeology
Chapter 2. Assessing early life stress in bioarchaeology: New approaches to understanding the vulnerable maternal-fetal relationship
Chapter 3. Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating perinatal and maternal health stress in Post-Medieval London
Chapter 4. The mother-offspring nexus revealed by linear enamel hypoplasia: Chronological and contextual evaluation of developmental stress using incremental microstructures of enamel
Section 2. Nourishment and the Nexus
Chapter 5. The ecology of breastfeeding and mother-infant immune functions
Chapter 6. What doesnt kill you: Childhood health, nutrition, and parental investment in early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia
Chapter 7. Cooperative Lactation and the Maternal-Infant Nexus
Section 3. Social and cognitive interactions in early life
Chapter 8. Mothering Tongues: Anthropological Perspectives on Language and the Mother-Infant Nexus
Chapter 9. The Mother-Infant Sleep Nexus: night-time experiences in early infancy and later outcomes
Chapter 10. Moving beyond the Obstetrical Dilemma Hypothesis: Birth, weaning and infant care in the Plio-Pleistocene
Section 4. Rupturing the nexus: infant loss in the archaeological record
Chapter 11. Using bone histology to identify stillborn and short-lived infants in the archaeological record
Chapter 12. Archaeothanatology as a Tool for Interpreting Death During Pregnancy: A Proposed Methodology Using Examples from Medieval Ireland
Chapter 13. Touching the Surface: Biological, behavioral, and emotional aspects of plagiocephaly at Harappa
Chapter 14. Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course
Chapter 15. Conclusions and Future Directions
Index.
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Mother/Infant Nexus in Archaeology and Anthropology
Section 1. Infant and maternal health in bioarchaeology
Chapter 2. Assessing early life stress in bioarchaeology: New approaches to understanding the vulnerable maternal-fetal relationship
Chapter 3. Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating perinatal and maternal health stress in Post-Medieval London
Chapter 4. The mother-offspring nexus revealed by linear enamel hypoplasia: Chronological and contextual evaluation of developmental stress using incremental microstructures of enamel
Section 2. Nourishment and the Nexus
Chapter 5. The ecology of breastfeeding and mother-infant immune functions
Chapter 6. What doesnt kill you: Childhood health, nutrition, and parental investment in early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia
Chapter 7. Cooperative Lactation and the Maternal-Infant Nexus
Section 3. Social and cognitive interactions in early life
Chapter 8. Mothering Tongues: Anthropological Perspectives on Language and the Mother-Infant Nexus
Chapter 9. The Mother-Infant Sleep Nexus: night-time experiences in early infancy and later outcomes
Chapter 10. Moving beyond the Obstetrical Dilemma Hypothesis: Birth, weaning and infant care in the Plio-Pleistocene
Section 4. Rupturing the nexus: infant loss in the archaeological record
Chapter 11. Using bone histology to identify stillborn and short-lived infants in the archaeological record
Chapter 12. Archaeothanatology as a Tool for Interpreting Death During Pregnancy: A Proposed Methodology Using Examples from Medieval Ireland
Chapter 13. Touching the Surface: Biological, behavioral, and emotional aspects of plagiocephaly at Harappa
Chapter 14. Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course
Chapter 15. Conclusions and Future Directions
Index.