Robert Arnott (University of Oxf Fellow of Green Templeton College

Broschiertes Buch

Disease and Healing in the Indus Civilisation

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Archaeopress
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 245mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781803277387
• ISBN-10: 1803277386
• Artikelnr.: 70644112