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Sturt W. Manning

Tel. (Lab): 607-255-8650
Email: sm456@cornell.edu

Positions

  • Director of the Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology, and the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory
  • Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classics

Member of the following Graduate Fields at Cornell:

I am interested in new graduate students wanting to work in any of these fields on dendrochronological, archaeological, geoarchaeological, archaeological science (or related) topics. For a quick list of my research interests, see section on Areas of Academic Interest. For current dendrochronology (etc.) work in the Lab see our webpages.

You must apply for graduate admission to Cornell and to a Graduate Field at Cornell (I do not do admissions). For the Graduate Fields listed above please follow the links to find out more.

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

Areas of Academic Interest

  • Archaeological science, Dendrochronology, Dendrochemistry, Dendroclimatology, Environmental and climate change science, Radiocarbon calibration and archaeological dating
  • Aegean Prehistory, Archaeological fieldwork (survey and excavation), Archaeological theory, Classical archaeology and neighbouring cultures, Cypriot Prehistory, East Mediterranean Prehistory (e.g. landscapes, cultural connections, trade, art, chronology, and identities in Aegean, Cypriot and east Mediterranean prehistory)

Archaeological Fieldwork

  • Director, The Tsaroukkas, Mycenaeans and Trade Project, Cyprus.
  • Director, Maroni Valley Archaeological Survey Project, Cyprus
  • Co-Director, Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus Project, Cyprus
  • Co-Director, Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project, Cyprus

Web resource

Selected Publications

  • ROGERS, M., LEON, J. F., FISHER, K. D., MANNING, S. W. & SEWELL, D. (2012) Comparing similar ground-penetrating radar surveys under different moisture conditions at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus. Archaeological Prospection, 19: 297-305.
  • RICH, S., MANNING, S. W., DEGRYSE, P., VANHAECKE, F. & VAN LERBERGHE, K. (2012) Strontium isotopic and tree-ring signatures of Cedrus brevifolia in Cyprus. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. - [URL].
  • MCCORMICK, M., BÜNTGEN, U., CANE, M. A., COOK, E. R., HARPER, K., HUYBERS, P., LITT, T., MANNING, S. W., MAYEWSKI, P. A., MORE, A. F. M., NICOLUSSI, K. & TEGEL, W. (2012) Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XLIII: 169-220.
  • MANNING, S. W., PEARSON, C. L. & GRIGGS, C. B. (2012) Dendro-wiggle-match placement of an oak tree-ring chronology from mid-first millennium AD Constantinople. Antiquity Project Gallery, 86: [URL].
  • LUTERBACHER, J., GARCÍA-HERRERA, R., AKCER-ON, S., ALLAN, R., ALVAREZ-CASTRO, M. C., BENITO, G., BOOTH, J., BÜNTGEN, U., CAGATAY, N., COLOMBAROLI, D., DAVIS, B., ESPER, J., FELIS, T., FLEITMANN, D., FRANK, D., GALLEGO, D., GARCIA-BUSTAMANTE, E., GLASER, R., GONZÁLEZ-ROUCO, J. F., GOOSSE, H., KIEFER, T., MACKLIN, M. G., MANNING, S. W., MONTAGNA, P., NEWMAN, L., POWER, M. J., RATH, V., RIBERA, P., RIEMANN, D., ROBERTS, N., SILENZI, S., TINNER, W., VALERO-GARCES, B., VAN DER SCHRIER, G., TZEDAKIS, C., VANNIÈRE, B., VOGT, S., WANNER, H., WERNER, J. P., WILLETT, G., WILLIAMS, M. H., XOPLAKI, E., ZEREFOS, C. S. & ZORITA, E. (2012) A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean IN: Lionello, P. The Climate of the Mediterranean region: From the Past to the Future. 87-185.
  • MANNING, S. W. & KROMER, B. (2011) Radiocarbon dating archaeological samples in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1730 to 1480 BC: Further exploring the atmospheric radiocarbon calibration record and the archaeological implications. Archaeometry, 53: 413-439 [URL].
  • MANNING, S. W. & KROMER, B. (2011) Radiocarbon Dating Iron Age Gordion and the Early Phrygian Destruction in Particular IN: Rose, C. & Darbyshire, G. The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion. 123-153. For corrections to a couple of typo/errors, some additional discussion, and additional illustrative material, please see the following: [PDF].
  • LINDBLOM, M. & MANNING, S. W. (2011) The Chronology of the Lerna Shaft Graves IN: Gauß, W., Lindblom, M., Smith, R. A. K. & C, W. J. Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the occasion of his 65th birthday. BAR International Series 2227. 140-153.
  • MCCARTNEY, C., MANNING, S. W., SEWELL, D. & STEWART, S. T. (2010) Reconsidering Early Holocene Cyprus within the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape IN: Finlayson, B. & G, W. Landscapes in Transition. 133-146.
  • MANNING, S. W., MCCARTNEY, C., KROMER, B. & STEWART, S. T. (2010) The earlier Neolithic in Cyprus: recognition and dating of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A occupation. Antiquity, 84: 693-706 [URL].
  • MANNING, S. W., KROMER, B., RAMSEY, C. B., PEARSON, C. L., TALAMO, S., TRANO, N. & WATKINS, J. (2010) 14C record and wiggle-match placement for the Anatolian (Gordion area) Juniper tree-ring chronology ~1729 to 751 Cal BC, and typical Aegean/Anatolian (growing season related) regional 14C offset assessment. Radiocarbon, 52: 1571-1597 [URL].
  • MANNING, S. W. (2010) Radiocarbon dating and climate change IN: Mainwaring, A., Giegengack, R. & Vita-Finzi, C. Climate Crises in Human History. 25-29.
  • MANNING, S. W. (2010) Chronology and Terminology IN: Cline, E. H. The Oxford Handbook of The Bronze Age Aegean Studies (ca. 3000-1000BC). 11-28.
  • MANNING, S. W. (2010) Eruption of Thera/Santorini IN: Cline, E. H. The Oxford Handbook of The Bronze Age Aegean Studies (ca. 3000-1000BC). 457-474.
  • KROMER, B., MANNING, S. W., FRIEDRICH, M., TALAMO, S. & TRANO, N. (2010) 14C calibration in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC - Eastern Mediterranean Radiocarbon Comparison Project (EMRCP). Radiocarbon, 52: 875-886 [URL].
  • BREWER, P. W., STURGEON, K., MADAR, L. & MANNING, S. W. (2010) A new approach to dendrochronological data management. Dendrochronologia, 28: 131-134 [URL].
  • BARFIELD, L., MANNING, S. W., VALZOLGHER, E. & HIGHAM, T. (2010) A Wiggle-Matched Date for the Copper Age Cemetery at Manerba del Garda, Northern Italy. Radiocarbon, 52: 984-1001 [URL].
  • REIMER, P. J., BAILLIE, M. G. L., BARD, E., BAYLISS, A., BECK, J. W., BLACKWELL, P. G., BRONK RAMSEY, C., BUCK, C. E., BURR, G. S., EDWARDS, L. R., FRIEDRICH, M., GROOTES, P., GUILDERSON, T. P., HAJDAS, I., HEATON, T., G, H. A., HUGHEN, K. A., KAISER, K., KROMER, B., MCCORMAC, F. G., MANNING, S. W., REIMER, R. W., RICHARDS, D., SOUTHON, J. R., TALAMO, S., CSM, T., VAN DER PLICHT, J. & WEYHENMEYER, C. E. (2009) IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0-50,000 Years cal BP. Radiocarbon, 51: 1111-1150 [URL].
  • PEARSON, C. L. & MANNING, S. W. (2009) Could absolutely dated tree-ring chemistry provide a means to dating the major volcanic eruptions of the Holocene? IN: Manning, S. W. & Bruce, M. J. Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm. 97-109 [URL].
  • PEARSON, C. L., DALE, D. S., BREWER, P. W., SALZER, M. W., LIPTON, J. & MANNING, S. W. (2009) Dendrochemistry of White Mountain Bristlecone pines - an investigation via Synchrotron Radiation Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114: G01023 [URL].
  • PEARSON, C. L., DALE, D. S., BREWER, P. W., KUNIHOLM, P. I., LIPTON, J. & MANNING, S. W. (2009) Dendrochemical analysis of a tree-ring growth anomaly associated with the Late Bronze Age eruption of Thera. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36: 1206-1214 [URL].
  • MANNING, S. W., PULAK, C., KROMER, B., TALAMO, S., BRONK RAMSEY, C. & DEE, M. (2009) Absolute age of the Uluburun shipwreck: a key Late Bronze Age time-capsule for the east Mediterranean IN: Manning, S. W. & Bruce, M. J. Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm. 163-187 [URL].
  • MANNING, S. W. & BRUCE, M. J. (2009) Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm Oxford, Oxbow Books [URL].
  • MANNING, S. W., BRONK RAMSEY, C., KUTSCHERA, W., HIGHAM, T., KROMER, B., STEIER, P. & WILD, E. M. (2009) Dating the Santorini/Thera eruption by radiocarbon: further discussion (AD 2006-2007) IN: Manning, S. W. & Bruce, M. J. Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm. 299-316 [URL].
  • MANNING, S. W. & BRONK RAMSEY, C. (2009) The dating of the earlier Late Minoan IA period: a brief note IN: Warburton, D. A. Time’s Up! Dating the Minoan eruption of Santorini. Acts of the Minoan Eruption Chronology Workshop, Sandbjerg November 2007 initiated by Jan Heinemeier & Walter L. Friedrich. 227-245.
  • MANNING, S. W. (2009) Beyond the Santorini eruption: some notes on dating the Late Minoan IB period on Crete, and implications for Cretan-Egyptian relations in the 15th century BC (and especially LMII) IN: Warburton, D. A. Time’s Up! Dating the Minoan eruption of Santorini. Acts of the Minoan Eruption Chronology Workshop, Sandbjerg November 2007 initiated by Jan Heinemeier & Walter L. Friedrich. 207-226.
  • GRIGGS, C. B. & MANNING, S. W. (2009) A Reappraisal of the Dendrochronology and Dating of Tille Höyük (1993). Radiocarbon, 51: 711-720 [PDF].
  • GRIGGS, C. B., KUNIHOLM, P. I., NEWTON, M. W., WATKINS, J. & MANNING, S. W. (2009) A 924-year regional oak tree-ring chronology for North Central Turkey IN: Manning, S. W. & Bruce, M. J. Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm. 71-79 [URL].
  • BELL, M., MANNING, S. W. & NAYLING, N. (2009) Dating the Coastal Mesolithic of Western Britain: A Test of some Evolutionary Assumptions IN: Combé, P., Van Strydonck, M., Sergant, J., Boudin, M. & Bats, M. Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe. 615-634.
  • MCCARTNEY, C., MANNING, S. W., ROSENDAHL, S. & STEWART, S. (2008) Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus (EENC) Preliminary Report on the 2007 Field Season: excavations and regional field survey at Agia Varvara-Asprokremnos. 67-86. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  • MANNING, S. W. (2008) An Edited Past: Aegean Prehistory and Its Texts IN: Cheetham, M. A., E, L. & M, S. C. Editing the Image: Strategies in the Production and Reception of the Visual. 33-65.
  • MANNING, S. W. (2008) Some initial wobbly steps towards a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze III radiocarbon chronology for the Cyclades IN: Brodie, N. J., Doole, J., Gavalas, G. & Renfrew, C. Horizon: A colloquium on the prehistory of the Cyclades. 55-59.
  • MANNING, S. W. (2008) Protopalatial Crete: Formation of the palaces IN: Shelmerdine, C. W. The Cambridge companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. 105-120.
  • WEBB, J. M., FRANKEL, D., MANNING, S. W. & SEWELL, D. A. (2007) Psematismenos-Koliokremmos/Palia: Tomb PKK/94. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 105-132.
  • NAYLING, N., MANNING, S. W., KROMER, B., BRONK RAMSEY, C., PEARSON, C. L. & TALAMO, S. (2007) Dating the submerged forests: dendrochronology and radiocarbon 'wiggle-match' dating IN: Bell, M. Prehistoric Coastal Communities: The Mesolithic in western Britain.
  • MANNING, S. W. & KUNIHOLM, P. I. (2007) Absolute dating at Apliki Karamallos. IN: Kling, B. & Muhly, J. D. Joan du Plat Taylor's excavations at the Late Bronze Age mining settlement at Apliki Karamallos, Cyprus Part 1. 325-335. Paul Åströms förlag, Sävedalen.
  • MANNING, S. W. (2007) Why radiocarbon dating 1200BCE is difficult: A sidelight on dating the end of the Late Bronze Age and the contrarian contribution. Scripta Mediterranea, 27: 53-80 [PDF].
  • MANNING, S. W. (2007) Preface. Beyond dates to chronology: rethinking the Neolithic-Chalcolithic Levant. Paléorient, 33: 5-10.
  • MANNING, S. W. (2007) Clarifying the ``high'' v. ``low'' Aegean/Cypriot chronology for the mid second millennium BC: assessing the evidence, interpretive frameworks, and current state of the debate IN: Bietak, M. & Czerny, E. The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C. III. Proceedings of the SCIEM 2000 - 2nd EuroConference, Vienna 28th of May - 1st of June 2003. 101-137 [PDF].
  • CHERRY, J., MANNING, S. W., ALCOCK, S., TONIKYAN, A. & ZARDARYAN, M. (2007) Radiocarbon dates for the second and first millennia B.C. from southern Armenia: preliminary results from the Vorotan Project (2005-2006). ARAMAZD (Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies), 2: 52-71.
  • PEARSON, C. L., MANNING, S. W., COLEMAN, M. L. & JARVIS, K. (2006) A Dendrochemical study of Pinus sylvestris from Siljansfors Experimental Forest, Central Sweden. Applied Geochemistry, 21: 1681-1691 [URL].
  • MCCARTNEY, C., MANNING, S. W., SEWELL, D. & STEWART, S. T. (2006) Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus (EENC). Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 39-62.
  • MCCARTNEY, C., MANNING, S. W., SEWELL, D. & STEWART, S. T. (2006) The EENC 2006 field season: excavations at Agia Varvara-Asprokremmos and survey of the local early Holocene landscape. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 27-44.
  • MANNING, S. W., CREWE, L. & SEWELL, D. A. (2006) Further light on early LCI connections at Maroni. IN: Czerny, E., Hein, I., Hunger, D., Melman, D. & Schwab, A. Timelines. Studies in honour of Manfred Bietak vol. 2. 471-488. Peeters.
  • MANNING, S. W., BRONK RAMSEY, C., KUTSCHERA, W., HIGHAM, T., KROMER, B., STEIER, P. & WILD, E. M. (2006) Chronology for the Aegean Late Bronze Age 1700-1400 B.C. Science, 312: 565-569 [URL].
  • MANNING, S. W. (2006) Radiocarbon dating and Egyptian chronology. IN: Hornung, E., Krauss, R. & Warburton, D. A. Ancient Egyptian Chronology. 327-355. Brill, Leiden [PDF].
  • 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 [PDF].
  • REIMER, P. J., BAILLIE, M. G. L., BARD, E., BECK, J. W., BLACKWELL, P. G., BUCK, C. E., BURR, G. S., EDARDS, R. L., FRIEDRICH, M., GUILDERSON, T. P., G, H. A., HUGHEN, K. A., KROMER, B., MCCORMAC, G., MANNING, S. W., REIMER, R. W., SOUTHON J R AD STUIVER, M., VAN DER PLICHT, J. & WEYHENMEYER, C. E. (2005) Comment on ``Radiocarbon calibration curve spanning 0 to 50,000 years BP based on paired 230Th/234U/238U and 14C dates on pristine corals'' by R.G. Fairbanks et al. (Quaternary Science Reviews 24 (2005) 1781--1796) and ``Extending the radiocarbon calibration beyond 26,000 years before present using fossil corals'' by T.-C. Chiu et al. (Quaternary Science Reviews 24 (2005) 1797--1808). Quaternary Science Reviews, 25: 855-862.
  • PEARSON, C. L., MANNING, S. W., COLEMAN, M. L. & JARVIS, K. (2005) Could Tree-Ring Chemistry Reveal Absolute Dates for Past Volcanic Eruptions? Journal of Archaeological Science, 32: 1265-1274 [PDF].
  • PEARSON, C. L., MANNING, S. W., COLEMAN, M. L. & JARVIS, K. (2005) Tree rings, volcanic eruptions and multi-elemental chemistry: The potential of dendrochemical techniques for the absolute dating of past volcanism. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 7: 00804 [PDF].
  • MANNING, S. W., KROMER, B., TALAMO, S., FRIEDRICH, M., KUNIHOLM PETER IAN & NEWTON, M. W. (2005) Radiocarbon Calibration in the East Mediterranean Region. IN: Levy, T. E. & Higham, T. The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating Archaeology, Text and Science. Equinox, London.
  • MANNING, S. W. & HULIN, L. (2005) Maritime commerce and geographies of mobility in the Late Bronze Age of the eastern Mediterranean: problematizations. IN: Blake, E. & Knapp, A. B. The archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory. 270-302. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA.
  • MANNING, S. W. (2005) Simulation and the Thera eruption: outlining what we do and do not know from Radiocarbon. IN: Dakouri-Hild, A. & Sherratt, S. Autochthon: Papers presented to O.T.P.K. Dickinson on the occasion of his retirement. 97-114. BAR Interional Series 1432. Archaeopress.
  • BRUINS, H. J., VAN DER PLICHT, J., MAZAR, A., BRONK RAMSEY, C. & MANNING, S. W. (2005) The Groningen Radiocarbon Series from Tel Rehov. IN: Levy, T. E. & Higham, T. The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating Archaeology, Text and Science. Equinox, London.
  • TURETSKY, M. R., MANNING, S. W. & WIEDER, R. K. (2004) Dating recent peat deposits. Wetlands, 24: 324-356 [URL].
  • REIMER, P. J., BAILLE, M. G. L., BARD, E., BAYLISS, A., BECK, W. J., BERTRAND, C. J. H., BLACKWELL, P. G., BUCK, C. E., BURR, G. S., CUTLER, K. B., DAMON, P. E., EDWARDS, L. R., FAIRBANK, R. G., FRIEDRICH, M., GUILDERSON, T. P., HOGG, A. G., HUGHEN, K. A., KROMER, B., MCCORMAC, G., MANNING, S. W., BRONK RAMSEY, C., REIMER, R. W., REMMELE, S., SOUTHON, J. R., STUIVER, M., TALAMO, S., TAYLOR, F. W., VAN DER PLICHT, J. & WEYHENMEYER, C. E. (2004) IntCal04 terrestrial radiocarbon age calibration, 0-26 cal kyr BP. Radiocarbon, 46: 1029-1058.
  • HUGHEN, K. A., BAILLIE, M. G. L., BARD, E., BECK, W. J., BERTRAND, C. J. H., BLACKWELL, P. G., BUCK, C. E., BURR, G. S., CUTLER, K. B., DAMON, P. E., EDWARDS, R. L., FAIRBANKS, R. G., FRIEDRICH, M., GUILDERSON, T. P., KROMER, B., MCCORMAC, G., MANNING, S. W., RAMSEY, C. B., REIMER, P. J., REIMER, R. W., REMMELE, S., SOUTHON, J. R., STUIVER, M., TALAMO, S., TAYLOR, F. W., VAN DER PLICHT, J. & WEYHENMEYER, C. E. (2004) Marine04 marine radiocarbon age calibration. Radiocardon, 46: 1059-1086 [URL].
  • GALIMBERTI, M., BRONK RAMSEY, C. & MANNING, S. W. (2004) Wiggle-match dating of tree ring sequences. Radiocarbon, 46: 917-924 [URL].
  • BRONK RAMSEY, C., MANNING, S. W. & GALIMBERTI, M. (2004) Dating the volcanic eruption at Thera. Radiocarbon, 46: 325-344 [URL].
  • 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 [URL].
  • MANNING, S. W. & BRONK RAMSEY, C. (2003) A Late Minoan I-II absolute chronology for the Aegean -- combining archaeology with radiocarbon The synchronisation of civilisations in the eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium BC (II). Proceedings of the SCIEM2000 EuroConference Haindorf, May 2001. 111-133.
  • 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., 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. & SEWELL, D. A. (2002) Volcanoes and history: a significant relationship? The case of Santorini. IN: Torrence, R. & Grattan, J. Natural disasters and cultural change. 264-291. Routledge, London.
  • MANNING, S. W., RAMSEY, C. B., DOUMAS, C., MARKETOU, T., CADOGAN, G. & PEARSON, C. L. (2002) New evidence for an early date for the Aegean Late Bronze Age and Thera eruption. Antiquity, 76: 733-744 [PDF].
  • 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 [PDF].
  • MANNING, S. W., WENINGER, B., SOUTH, A. K., KLING, B., KUNIHOLM, P. I., MUHLY, J. D., HADJISAVVAS, S., SEWELL, D. & CADOGAN, G. (2001) Absolute age range of the Late Cypriot IIC period on Cyprus. Antiquity, 75: 328-340 [PDF].
  • 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 [PDF].
  • MANNING, S. W. (2001) The chronology and foreign connections of the Late Cypriot I period: times they are a-changin. IN: Åström, P. The chronology of Base-Ring ware and Bichrome wheel-made ware. 69-94. The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm.
  • 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 [PDF].
  • 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.
  • 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 [PDF].
  • MANNING, S. W. (1999) Knossos and the limits of settlement growth. IN: Betancourt, P. P., Karageorghis, V., Laffineur, R. & Niemeier, W-D. 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.
  • 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. & PELTENBURG, E. (1998) Towards a dated framework: radiocarbon chronology. Lemba Archaeological Project. Volume II.1A: Excavations at Kissonerga-Mosphilia, 1979-1992: 12-21. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 70:2.
  • MANNING, S. W., MONKS, S. J., 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 durée to history IN: Cline, E. H. & Harris-Cline, D. The Aegean and the Orient in the second millennium: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Symposium Cincinnati, 18-20 April 1997. 311-325.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1998) Tsaroukkas, Mycenaeans and Trade Project: preliminary report on the 1996-1997 seasons Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1998) Aegean and Sardinian chronology: radiocarbon, calibration, and Thera. IN: Balmuth, M. S. & Tykot, R. H. Sardinian and Aegean chronology: towards the resolution of relative and absolute dating in the Mediterranean. 297-307. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1998) Changing pasts and socio-political cognition in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. World Archaeology, 30: 39-58 [URL].
  • CADOGAN, G., HERSCHER, E., RUSSELL, P. & MANNING, S. W. (1998) Maroni-Vournes: A long White Slip sequence and its chronology IN: Karageorghis, V. 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.
  • MANNING, S. W. & DE MITA JR, F. A. (1997) Cyprus, the Aegean, and Maroni Tsaroukkas 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.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1997) Troy, radiocarbon, and the chronology of the northeast Aegean in the Early Bronze Age. IN: La Rosa, V. & Doumas, C. Ηε Πολιοχηνι και ηε προιμι εποχηε του Χηαλκου στο ςορειο Αιγαιο/Poliochni e l'antica età del bronzo nell'Egeo settentrional. 498-520. Scuola archeologica italiana di Atene and Panepistimio Athenon.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1997) Cultural change in the Aegean c.2200BC. IN: Dalfes, H. N., Kukla, G. & Weiss, H. Third millennium BC climate change and old world collapse. 149-171. Springer, Berlin.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1996) Dating the Aegean Bronze Age: without, with, and beyond, radiocarbon. IN: Randsborg, K. Absolute chronology: archaeological Europe 2500-500 BC. 15-37. Munksgaard, København.
  • KUNIHOLM, P. I., KROMER, B., MANNING, S. W., NEWTON, M. W., LATINI, C. E. & BRUCE, M. J. (1996) Anatolian tree rings and the absolute chronology of the eastern Mediterranean, 2220-718 BC. Nature, 381: 780-783 [PDF].
  • KROMER, B., AMBERS, J., BAILLIE, M. G. L., E, D. P., HESSHAIMER, V., HOFMANN, J., JÖRIS, O., LEVIN, I., MANNING, S. W., MCCORMAC, F. G., PLICHT, J., VAN DER SPURK, M., STUIVER, M. & WENINGER, B. (1996) Summary of the workshop ``Aspects of high-precision radiocarbon calibration''. Radiocarbon, 38: 607-610.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1995) The Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: archaeology, history and radiocarbon Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press.
  • MANNING, S. W. & SWINY, S. (1994) Sotira Kaminoudhia and the chronology of the Early Bronze Age in Cyprus. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 13: 149-172 [URL].
  • MANNING, S. W., DE MITA JR, F. A., MONKS, S. J. & NAKOU, G. (1994) The Fatal Shore, the Long Years, and the Geographical Unconscious. Considerations of Iconography, Chronology and Trade in Response to Negbi's `The ``Libyan Landscape'' from Thera: A Review of Aegean Enterprises Overseas in the Late Minoan IA Period' (JMA 7.1). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 7: 219-235.
  • MANNING, S. W., COLLON, D., CONWELL, D. H., JANSEN, H-G., SEWELL, D., STEEL, L. & SWINTON, A. (1994) Tsaroukkas, Mycenaeans and Trade Project: preliminary report on the 1993 season Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  • MANNING, S. W., BOLGER, D. L., PONTING, M. J., STEEL, L. & SWINTON, A. (1994) Maroni Valley Archaeological Survey Project: preliminary report on 1992-1993 seasons Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1994) The emergence of divergence: development and decline on Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades. IN: Matheres, C. & Stoddart, S. Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age. 221-270. J.R. Collis Publications, Sheffield.
  • 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. & 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. & CONWELL, D. H. (1992) Maroni Valley Archaeological Survey Project: preliminary report on the 1990-1991 Field Seasons Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1992) Archaeology and the world of Homer: introduction to a past and present discipline. IN: Emlyn-Jones, C., Hardwick, L. & Purkis, J. Homer: readings and images. 117-142. Duckworth, London.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1992) Thera, sulphur, and climatic anomalies. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 11: 245-253.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1991) Response to J.D. Muhly on problems of chronology in the Aegean Late Bronze Age. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 4: 249-262.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1991) Approximate calendar date for the first human settlement of Cyprus? Antiquity, 65: 870-878.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1990) The eruption of Thera: date and implications. IN: Hardy, D. A. & Renfrew, A. C. Thera and the Aegean World III. 29-40. The Thera Foundation, London.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1990) Frames of reference for the past: some thoughts on Bernal, truth and reality. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 3: 255-274.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1990) The Thera eruption: the Third Congress and the problem of the date. Archaeometry, 32: 91-100.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1989) The Santorini eruption: an up-date. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 2: 303-313.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1989) A new age for Minoan Crete. New Scientist, 11 Feb: 60-63.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1988) Dating of the Santorini eruption. Nature, 332: 401 [PDF].
  • MANNING, S. W. (1988) The Bronze Age eruption of Thera: absolute dating, Aegean chronology and Mediterranean cultural interrelations. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 1: 17-82.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1987) The volcano of Thera and the destruction of Minoan Crete. Kretika Chronika, KZ': 59-95.
  • MANNING, S. W. (1986) The military function in Late Minoan Crete: a note. World Archaeology, 18: 284-288 [URL].

Sturt Manning (Director)

Sturt Manning (Director)



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

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



Jug from Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus.

Jug from Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus.



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

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





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

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



Mycenaean jar from Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus.

Mycenaean jar from Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus.



Coring a <i>Pinus nigra</i> tree on Troodos, Cyprus.

Coring a Pinus nigra tree on Troodos, Cyprus.



Cornell team in Cyprus after sampling wood from the church.

Cornell team in Cyprus after sampling wood from the church.



Lithic from Ayia Varvara Asprokremos, Cyprus.

Lithic from Ayia Varvara Asprokremos, Cyprus.



Sturt excavating an Early Neolithic site in central Cyprus.

Sturt excavating an Early Neolithic site in central Cyprus.



Kohl Tube from Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus.

Kohl Tube from Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus.