Stained glass of Dr Robert Munro FRSE in Scottish National Portrait GalleryAn illustration from Monro's Palæolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe of a bronze
celt (a prehistoric, chisel-bladed tool), a bronze and bone awl, and a variety of objects used either as beads or as
spindle whorls.
Robert MunroFRSE FSA LLD (21 July 1835 – 18 July 1920) was a
Scottish physician and noted amateur
archaeologist.[1]
Edinburgh University's Munro Lectures in Archaeology and Anthropology are named in his honour.[2]
Life
He was born on 21 July 1835 at
Assynt in
Rossshire, and educated at
Kiltearn Free Church School, and at the Royal Academy in
Tain.[3]
He studied Medicine at the
University of Edinburgh graduating MA in 1860 and MB ChB in 1867.[3] He worked as a
General Practitioner in
Kilmarnock until 1886, when he turned his whole attention to archaeological research.[4] He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad and published several books on the subjects of his research.[4]
Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings or Crannogs (1882)[4]
The Lake Dwellings of Europe: being the
Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1888 (1890)[4][7]
Rambles and Studies in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dalmatia, with an account of the Proceedings of the Congress of Archaeologists and Anthropologists held at Sarajevo, August 1894 (1895)[4][8]
Prehistoric Problems: being a selection of essays on the evolution of man and other controverted problems in anthropology and archæology (1897)[4][9]
Prehistoric Scotland and its Place in European Civilisation (1899)[4]
Man as Artist and Sportsman in the Palæolithic Period (1903)[10][11]
Palæolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe: Being the Munro Lectures in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archæology in Connection with the University of Edinburgh, Delivered During February and March 1912 (1912)[13]
From Darwinism to Kaiserism: being a review of the origin, effects and collapse of Germany's attempt at world-dominion by methods of barbarism (1919)[14][15]
Autobiographic Sketch of Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., LL.D., 21st July, 1835 - 18th July, 1920 (1921)[7]
^F, W (1897). "Reviewed Work: Prehistoric Problems: Being a Selection of Essays on the Evolution of Man and Other Controverted Problems in Anthropology and Archæology by Robert Munro". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 7 (2): 195–197.
JSTOR25508408.
^ Works by or about
Robert Munro at
Wikisource (As of July 2017[update], some of his works are in a Wikisource transcription project, available for reading, transcribing and editing.)