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Disease and Healing in the Indus Civilisation presents a synthesis of what is currently known about health, disease and healing in the Indus Civilisation in the third to early second millennia BCE, underpinned by original research. It is the result of a detailed study of published human skeletal remains and material culture, with an increasing awareness of the natural environment. When combined with a knowledge of palaeoepidemiology and the natural history of disease, ancient climate change, and what is known of healing and health in contemporary Bronze Age societies of the Near East, with which the Indus Civilisation was in contact, it has been possible to piece together a picture of diseases in the period, the practice of healing and the development of public health. For the first time, the book illustrates the health, life expectancy, and the illnesses and injuries from which those at the bottom of society suffered, both at work and at home.

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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.

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