Gustav Milne
Institute of Archaeology University College London UK
Biography
Gustav Milne studied archaeology at Oxford and London University, and worked as an archaeologist for the Museum of London since 1973, excavating sites and publishing many reports and books. He then joined the UCL Institute of Archaeology where he lectured for a further 25 years. He helped set up the Museum of London’s Centre for Human Bioarchaeology and the Evolutionary Determinants of Health programme, where archaeologists worked with a consortium including microbiologists, architects and transport planners. The project was launched at UCL in 2014, and Gustav’s book Uncivilised Genes: human evolution and the urban paradox’ was published in 2017.