The eruption of Santorini in the Bronze Age

This website highlights the doctoral thesis of Dr. David A Sewell. The thesis was awarded by the University of Reading in 2001 and was conducted jointly at the Environmental Systems Science Centre and the Department of Archaeology. Both Institutions were rated as 5* in the latest RAE.

Qualifications

• Ph.D., 2001, Environmental Systems Science Centre, University of Reading: “Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An elemental analysis of the Minoan eruption of Santorini volcano”. This research was funded by NERC.

• MSc, Geographical Information Systems, 1996, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh.

• MA, Field and Analytical Techniques of Archaeology, 1992, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

• BA (Hons) 2:1, 1989, Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, University of Liverpool.

Publications

Manning, S.W. and Sewell, D.A . (monograph in preparation) Maroni Tsaroukkas I. Excavation and survey 1990-1998.

Webb, J.M., Frankel, D., Manning, S.W. & Sewell, D.A . in preparation. Early and Middle Bronze Age occupation in the Maroni Valley, Cyprus: surface survey at Psematismenos Trelloukkas. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2008

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 2007. 105-132

McCartney, C. Manning, S.W., Sewell, D.A. & Stewart, S.T. 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 2007. 27-44

McCartney, C. Manning, S.W., Sewell, D.A . & Stewart, S.T. (in preparation). New Perspectives on the Early Holocene Landscape in Cyprus . Conference proceedings of Landscapes in Transition: understanding hunter-gatherer and farming landscapes in the early Holocene of Europe and the Levant . 26-30 March 2007, Jordan

McCartney, C. Manning, S.W., Sewell, D.A . & Stewart, S. 2006. Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus (EENC): Report on the 2005 Field Season. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2006

Peltenburg,E., Bolger,D., Kincey,M., McCarthy,A., McCartney C. & Sewell, D.A . 2006. Investigations at the Souskiou Laona settlement, Dhiarizos Valley , 2005. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2006

Manning, S.W., Crewe , L. and Sewell, D.A . 2006 Further light on early LCI connections at Maroni . In Timelines: Studies in hounour of Manfred Bietak Volume II. Czerny E., Hein I., Hunger H., Melman D., Schwab A. (editors), (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 149) , 471-488.

Manning, S.W. and Sewell, D.A . 2006. Psematismenos Trelloukkas Project , Cyprus . CBRL Bulletin 2006 VOL 1: 66-68

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 .

Manning, S.W., Manning, A., Tomber, R., Sewell, D.A ., Monks, S.J., Ponting, M.J. and Ribeiro, E.C. 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 . The A.G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia . 87p.

Manning, S.W. and Sewell, D.A . 2002. Volcanoes and History: a significant relationship? The Case of Santorini. In R Torrence and J Gratten (Eds.) Natural Disasters, Catastrophism and cultural change . 264-291. Routledge, London .

Manning, S.W., Weninger, B., South, A.K., Kling, B., Kuniholm, P.I., Muhly, J.D., Hadjisavvas, S., Sewell, D.A . & Cadogan, G. 2001. Absolute age range of the Late Cypriot IIC period on Cyprus . Antiquity 75:328-340.

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 : 233-257.

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 , 1994: 83-106.

Fieldwork

Extensive fieldwork experience since 1988 in Cyprus, Lebanon, Crete and Syria

Current Fieldwork Projects

 

Awards

2008 The Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies

1998-2001 NERC PhD Scholarship