Sturt Manning is currently the Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology, Director of the Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. He was previously a Lecturer, then Reader at the University of Reading, UK, following a PhD at Cambridge and earlier study in his native Australia (MA Hons, Macquarie University, BA Hons, Australian National University). His research interests cover Mediterranean archaeology (especially the Aegean, Cyprus and east Mediterranean), and archaeological science (especially dendrochronology, radiocarbon, and climate). For more information on publications, see http://cornell.academia.edu/SturtWManning