Robert Arnott Editor & Author

Robert Arnott was formerly Professor of the History and Archaeology of Medicine, Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine and Public Orator of the University of Birmingham. After retirement, he moved to the University of Oxford, where he is now a Fellow of Green Templeton College. He has a recognised international profile as indicated by his publications, conferences and visiting professorships. He has excavated on Crete, at Troy and on the Greek Mainland and islands and is currently working on the finds from the excavation of the Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi in Western Crete, where he heads the study of the human skeletal remains and is co-editor of the site’s publication. He is an authority on disease and medicine in the Aegean and Anatolian Bronze Ages,2000-1100 BC, but in recent years, his interest has turned to India, where he frequently travels for his work in modern global health and some of his latest publications have concentrated on health, disease and medicine in the Harappan Civilisation, 2600-1900 BC and on its distant and tenuous relationship with Greece and the Aegean from prehistory to the time of Alexander the Great.