Cornell University
Intercollege Program
 

ARCHAEOLOGY  CORE  FACULTY
     
 
Sturt W. Manning
Professor,
Classics

Director, Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology, Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory

sm456@cornell.edu
Office:
607.255.9639
135 Goldwin Smith Hall
Lab:
607.255.8650
B-48 Goldwin Smith Hall
Education
  • Australian National University, B.A. Hons, 1986
  • Macquarie University, M.A. Hons, 1988
  • University of Cambridge, Ph.D., 1995
    Thesis: Before Daidalos: the origins of complex society, and the genesis of the state on Crete.
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University – 2006 onwards
  • University of Toronto – 2004-2005
  • University of Reading – 1992-2003
  • University of Cambridge – 1990-1992
 
Research Interests
Aegean and East Mediterranean Prehistory, Classical Archaeology, Development of Complex Societies, Archaeological Theory, Dendrochronology (and dendrochemistry and dendroclimatology), Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology, Climate Change
 
Research Experience
Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory, Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto, Canada, 2004-2005; Associate Director, IsoTrace Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada, 2004-2005; Archaeological Institute of America Kress Lecturer, Ancient Art, 2004-2005; Reader in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK, 1998-2003; Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia, 2000; Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK, 1996-1998; Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Reading, UK, 1992-1996; Research Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK, 1990-1992
 
Selected Publications - Books
2002 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.
2001 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.
1999 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.
 
Selected Publications - Articles/Chapters, 2006-1988
2006 Bronk Ramsey, C., Buck, C.E., Manning, S.W., Reimer, P. & van der Plicht, H. 2006. Developments in radiocarbon calibration for archaeology. Antiquity 80:783-798.
2006 Pearson, C.L., Manning, S.W., Coleman, M. & Jarvis, K. 2006. A dendrochemical study of Pinus sylvestris from Siljansfors Experimental Forest, central Sweden. Applied Geochemistry 21:1681-1691.
2006 Manning, S.W., Bronk Ramsey, C., Kutschera, W., Higham, T., Kromer, B., Steier, P. & Wild, E. 2006. Chronology for the Aegean Late Bronze Age. Science 312:565-569.
2005 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.
2005 Pearson, C.L., Manning, S.W., Coleman, M. & Jarvis, K. 2005. Can tree-ring chemistry reveal absolute dates for past volcanic eruptions? Journal of Archaeological Science. 32:1265-1274.
2002 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.
2002 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.
2001 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.
2001 Kromer, B., Manning, S.W., Kuniholm, P.I., Newton, M.W., Spurk, M. & Levin, I. 2001. Regional 14CO2 offsets in the troposphere: magnitude, mechanisms, and consequences. Science 294:2529-2532.
2000 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.
1999 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 65th year: 469-480. Liège and Austin: Histoire de l’art et archéologie de la Grèce antique, Université de Liège and Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, University of Texas at Austin.
1998 Manning, S.W. 1998. Changing pasts and socio-political cognition in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. World Archaeology 30:39-58.
1998 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.
1997 Manning, S.W. 1998. From process to people: longue durée 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.
1997 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.
1994 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.
1993 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.
1992 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.
1988 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.