Sturt W. Manning
Professor.  Aegean, Cypriot and East Mediterranean Prehistory, Classical Archaeology, Dendrochronology, Radiocarbon Dating, Climate and History
Fall 2009 Office Hours: by appointment (e-mail: sm456@cornell.edu)
Fall 2009 Course: Class 3750 - Intro to Dendrochonology

Education:

• BA Hons, Australian National University, 1986

• MA Hons, Macquarie University, 1988

• PhD, University of Cambridge, 1995

 Previous Faculty Positions:

• Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory, University of Toronto, 2004-2005

• Reader in Archaeology, previously Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK, 1996-2003.

• Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Reading, UK 1992-1996

Sturt Manning

Areas of Academic Interest:

• Aegean Prehistory, Archaeological fieldwork (survey and excavation), Archaeological theory, Classical archaeology, Cypriot Prehistory, East Mediterranean Prehistory ñ e.g. landscapes, cultural connections, trade, art, chronology, and identities in Aegean, Cypriot and east Mediterranean prehistory

• Archaeological science, Dendrochronology, Dendrochemistry, Dendroclimatology, Environmental and climate change science, Radiocarbon calibration and archaeological dating

Excavations of the Late Bronze Age Building 1 at Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus, c.1400-1200 BC.

Fieldwork:

• Director, The Tsaroukkas, Mycenaeans and Trade Project, Cyprus.

• Director, Maroni Valley Archaeological Survey Project, Cyprus

• Co-Director, Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus Project, Cyprus

• Member, Metakron Consortium, for the project ëGeomorphology of Cyprusí

Coring a Pinus nigra tree on Troodos, Cyprus.

 
Excavation at the Late Bronze Age building at Maroni Aspres, Cyprus, c.1400-1200 BC.

Field survey work for the Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus (EENC) Project, central Cyprus.

Publications:

Books:

• Manning, S.W., et al. 2002. The Late Roman Church at Maroni Petrera: Survey and salvage excavations 1990-1997, and other traces of Roman remains in the lower Maroni Valley, Cyprus. Nicosia: The A.G. Leventis Foundation.

• Manning, S.W. 2001. The Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: archaeology, history and radiocarbon. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 1. Reprint. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

• Manning, S.W. 1999. A Test of Time: the volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid-second millennium BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Maroni Tsaroukkas Sea Bed survey, Cyprus: Late Cypriot IA ceramics from seabed deposit, 17-16th century BC.

The Thera (Santorini) Volcanic Eruption and the Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Bronze Age

A WWW companion site to: Sturt W. Manning, A test of time: the volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid second millennium BC. (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1999). Softback. Pp. 494 + xxxiii, figs. 66, tables 14, pls.15. ISBN 1-900188-99-6. Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford OX1 1HN, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1865 241249. Fax: +44 (0) 1865 794449. E-Mail: oxbow@oxbowbooks.com. In North America, contact: The David Brown Book Company, PO Box 511, Oakville, CT 06779, USA. Tel: 860 945 9329. Fax: 860 945 9468.

Version date: 28 April 2006

New additions to the pdf file version of the site have also been added:

(i) Information on Radiocarbon measurements and calibrated ages, and WWW resources, in brief

(ii) Information on Dendrochronology and WWW, in brief

Base Ring II (early) Jug from Pit 6 associated with backfill of MT Tomb 4, Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus, MT.494, c.1500-1400 BC.

Some Selected Papers:

• Manning, S.W., Crewe, L. & Sewell, D.A. 2006. Further light on early LCI connections at Maroni. In E. Czerny, I. Hein, H. Hunger, D. Melman & A. Schwab (eds.), Timelines. Studies in honour of Manfred Bietak, Vol.2: 471-488. OLA 149. Leuven: Peeters

• Manning, S.W. and Hulin, L. 2005. Maritime commerce and geographies of mobility in the Late Bronze Age of the eastern Mediterranean: problematizations. In E. Blake and A.B. Knapp (eds.), The archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory: 270-302. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

• Manning, S. 2005. Simulation and the Thera eruption: outlining what we do and do not know from Radiocarbon. In A. Dakouri-Hild & S. Sherratt (eds.), Autochthon: Papers presented to O.T.P.K. Dickinson on the occasion of his retirement: 97-114. BAR International Series 1432. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• Turetsky, M.R., Manning, S.W. & Wieder, R.K. 2004. Dating recent peat deposits. Wetlands 24:324-356.

• Bronk Ramsey, C., Manning, S.W. & Galimberti, M. 2004. Dating the volcanic eruption at Thera. Radiocarbon. 46:325-344.

• Manning, S.W. & Bronk Ramsey, C. 2003. A Late Minoan I-II absolute chronology for the Aegean ñ combining archaeology with radiocarbon. In: Bietak, M. (ed.), The synchronisation of civilisations in the eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium BC (II). Proceedings of the SCIEM2000 EuroConference Haindorf, May 2001: 111-133. Wien: ÷sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

• Manning S.W., Kromer B., Kuniholm P.I., Newton M.W. 2003. Confirmation of near-absolute dating of east Mediterranean Bronze-Iron Dendrochronology. Antiquity 77 (295): http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Manning/manning.html

• Manning, S.W., Sewell, D.A. & Herscher, E. 2002. Late Cypriot IA maritime trade in action: underwater survey at Maroni-Tsaroukkas and the contemporary east Mediterranean trading system. Annual of the British School at Athens 97: 97-162.

• Manning, S.W., Barbetti, M., Kromer, B., Kuniholm, P.I., Levin, I, Newton, M.W. & Reimer, P.J. 2002. No systematic early bias to Mediterranean 14C ages: radiocarbon measurements from tree-ring and air samples provide tight limits to age offsets. Radiocarbon 44:739-754.

• Manning, S.W. & Sewell, D.A. 2002. Volcanoes and history: a significant relationship? The case of Santorini. In R. Torrence and J. Grattan, (eds) Natural disasters and cultural change: 264-291. London: Routledge.

• Manning, S.W., Kromer, B, Kuniholm, P.I. & Newton, M.W. 2001. Anatolian tree-rings and a new chronology for the east Mediterranean Bronze-Iron Ages. Science 294:2532-2535.

• Kromer, B., Manning, S.W., Kuniholm, P.I., Newton, M.W., Spurk, M. & Levin, I. 2001. Regional 14CO 2 offsets in the troposphere: magnitude, mechanisms, and consequences. Science 294:2529-2532.

• Manning, S.W., Weninger, B., South, A.K., Kling, B., Kuniholm, P.I., Muhly, J.D., Hadjisavvas, S., Sewell, D.A. & Cadogan, G. 2001. Absolute age range of the Late Cypriot IIC period on Cyprus. Antiquity 75:328-340.

• Cadogan, G., Herscher, E., Russell, P. & Manning, S. 2001. Maroni-Vournes: A long White Slip sequence and its chronology. In V. Karageorghis (ed.), The White Slip Ware of Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Proceedings of an International Conference Organized by the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia in Honour of Malcolm Wiener, Nicosia 29th-30th October 1998: 75-88. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

• Manning, S.W., Monks, S.J., Sewell, D.A. & Demesticha, S. 2000. Late Roman type 1a amphora production at the Late Roman site of Zygi-Petrini, Cyprus. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: 233-257.

• Manning, S.W. 1999. Knossos and the limits of settlement growth. In P.P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), Meletemata: studies in Aegean archaeology presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as he enters his 65 th year: 469-480. Liège and Austin: Histoire de líart et archéologie de la Grèce antique, Université de Liège and Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, University of Texas at Austin.

• Housley, R.A., Manning, S.W., Cadogan, G., Jones, R.E. & Hedges, R.E.M. 1999. Radiocarbon, calibration, and the chronology of the Late Minoan IB phase. Journal of Archaeological Science 26: 159-171.

• Manning, S.W. 1998. Changing pasts and socio-political cognition in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. World Archaeology 30:39-58.

• Manning, S.W. & Monks, S.J. with contributions by Steel, L., Ribeiro, E.C. & Weinstein, J.M. 1998. Late Cypriot Tombs at Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus. Annual of the British School at Athens 93:297-351.

• Manning, S.W. 1998. From process to people: longue durÈe to history. In E.H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the second millennium: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Symposium Cincinnati, 18-20 April 1997: 311-325. Aegaeum 18. Liège and Austin: Université de Liège and University of Texas at Austin.

• Manning, S.W. 1997. Cultural change in the Aegean c.2200BC. In H.N. Dalfes, G. Kukla and H. Weiss (eds.), Third millennium BC climate change and old world collapse: 149-171. NATO ASI Series I, vol.49. Berlin: Springer.

• Manning, S.W. & De Mita, F.A. Jr. 1997. Cyprus, the Aegean, and Maroni Tsaroukkas. In Cyprus and the Aegean in Antiquity: Proceedings of the International Conference Cyprus and the Aegean in Antiquity from the prehistoric period to the 7th century A.D., Nicosia 8-10 December 1995: 103-141. Nicosia: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.

• Manning, S.W. 1994. The emergence of divergence: development and decline on Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades. In C. Mathers & S. Stoddart (eds.), Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age: 221-270. Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 8. Sheffield: J.R. Collis Publications.

• Manning, S.W. 1993. Prestige, distinction and competition: the anatomy of socio-economic complexity in fourth to second millennium B.C.E. Cyprus. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 292:35-58.

• Manning, S.W. 1992. Archaeology and the world of Homer: introduction to a past and present discipline. In C. Emlyn-Jones, L. Hardwick and J. Purkis (eds.), Homer: readings and images: 117-142. London: Duckworth.

• Manning, S.W. & Weninger, B. 1992. A light in the dark: archaeological wiggle matching and the absolute chronology of the close of the Aegean Late Bronze Age. Antiquity 66: 636-663.

• Manning, S.W. 1988. The Bronze Age eruption of Thera: absolute dating, Aegean chronology and Mediterranean cultural interrelations. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 1(1):17-82.

Detail of stratigraphy at the north end of the Late Bronze Age Building 2 at Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus, c.1400-1200 BC.

White Slip II transitional spouted bowl from MT Tomb 3 at Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus, c.1500-1300 BC.

Fragment picrolite bracelet from Neolithic locus during 2005 EENC survey season

Coring a Pinus brutia tree in the Pafos forest, western Cyprus

Chariot krater sherd from excavations at Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus. MT.080. Late Helladic IIIA2

 
Fragments of a glass kohl bottle from Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus. MT.223.

Field survey work for the Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus (EENC) Project, central Cyprus