Sturt W ManningSturt Manning is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classics at Cornell University, USA, where he also directs the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory. His research interests include Aegean, Cypriot, and east Mediterranean archaeology, along wih the archaeology of complex societies, dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating, and archaeological science. He is the author of A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid-second Millennium BC (Oxbow Books, 2014) and co-editor, with Catherine Kearns, of New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology (Cornell University Press, 2019). Read More Read Less