Introduction: Building a Bioarchaeology of Care -- 1. Providing a context: thinking and theory in the bioarchaeology of care -- SECTION ONE :Case studies of caregiving: testing the boundaries of bioarchaeology of care research -- 2. Using the Index of Care on a Bronze-Age teenager with poliomyelitis or cerebral palsy: from speculation to strong inference -- 3. Cared for or outcast? A case for c…