Disease and Healing in the Indus Civilisation

This book provides insights into health, disease, and healing in the Indus Civilisation during the third to early second millennia BCE. Based on original research, it examines skeletal remains, material culture, and environmental factors. The book sheds light on diseases, healing practices, and public health in this ancient civilizat

About the author

Professor Robert Arnott is a Fellow of Green Templeton College in the University of Oxford. An archaeologist who specialises in ancient disease and medicine, he is the author or editor of five books and over seventy, mostly single-authored, papers. In recent years, his interest has turned to South Asia, where he frequently travels for his work in modern rural health, and to the study of health, disease and medicine in the Indus Civilisation, 2600-1900 BC and its relationship with the Eastern Mediterranean in prehistory. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Arnott, Robert (Fellow of Green Templeton College Arnott
• Publisher: Archaeopress bar
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2024
• EAN: 9781803277387
• ISBN: 978-1-80327-738-7
• No. of pages: 214
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history