Sturt W. Manning

Tel. (Lab): 60-255-8650
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

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

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

Some Web resources

WWW Companion site to: 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 millenium BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Information on Radiocarbon measurements and calibrated ages, and WWW resources in brief
Information on Dendrochronology and WWW in brief

Selected Publications

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) 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].
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.
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) 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.
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].
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) Tsaroukkas, Mycenaeans and Trade Project: preliminary report on the 1996-1997 seasons Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
MANNING, S. W. (1998) Changing pasts and socio-political cognition in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. World Archaeology, 30: 39-58 [URL].
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) 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.
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) 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 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) The Thera eruption: the Third Congress and the problem of the date. Archaeometry, 32: 91-100.
MANNING, S. W. (1989) A new age for Minoan Crete. New Scientist, 11 Feb: 60-63.
MANNING, S. W. (1989) The Santorini eruption: an up-date. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 2: 303-313.
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. (1988) Dating of the Santorini eruption. Nature, 332: 401 [PDF].
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].