Charlotte A. Roberts

I have just retired (October 2020) but am still connected to Durham University (see: https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/?id=163). I have a background in nursing, archaeology, environmental archaeology and human bioarchaeology. I have studied and interpreted human remains from archaeological sites for nearly 40 years. I exploring the interaction of people with their environments in the past through patterns of health and disease (palaeopathology), My nursing background has guided me into taking an holistic approach to past ill health in bioarchaeology, something that was also considered essential in a hospital setting. Understanding why and how people and communities today experience health problems is essential to be able to understand ill health in the past. I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014.