• Aegean Prehistory, Archaeological fieldwork (survey and excavation), Archaeological theory, Classical archaeology, 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

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.

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.

• Classical Archaeology

Spring 2013 Office Hours:
By appointment

Spring 2013
Research Methods in Archaeology (CLASS 7742/ANTHR 7742/ARKEO 7742/ARTH 6252) (with Adam Smith)

Fall 2012
Introduction to Dendrochronology (CLASS 3750/ARKEO 3090/ARTH 3250)
Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age (CLASS 4739/ARKEO 4739/ARTH 4739)

Fall 2011
Introduction to Dendrochronology (CLASS 3750/ARKEO 3090/ARTH 3250)

Spring 2011
Research Methods in Archaeology (CLASS 7742/ARKEO 7742/ARTH 6252)

Fall 2010
Introduction to Dendrochronology (CLASS 3750/ARKEO 3090/ARTH 3250)

Spring 2010
Emergence of Greek Civilization (CLASS 7729/ARKEO 7729)

Fall 2009
Introduction to Dendrochronology (CLASS 3750/ARKEO 3090/ARTH 3250)

Spring 2009
On leave

Fall 2008
Introduction to Dendrochronology (CLASS 3750/ARKEO 3090/ARTH 3250)

• 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