Assistant Professor I use dendrochronology, wood anatomy, tree-ring stable isotopes, and wider archaeobotanical methods to investigate human-environment interactions and their long-term impact legacies during the Anthropocene. My recent studies focus on the challenge to articulate a high-resolution chronology appropriate and comparable with the lived histories of the Indigenous village settlements in Northeast North America. I study how humans have used timber resources and shaped forest ecosystems over time, with a particular interest in high precision dating to better understand environmental factors and socioeconomic networks in southeastern Europe Research Research Areas: Archaeology Research Interests: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) Chronology Bayesian chronological modeling Radiocarbon data Dendrochronology Akko (city) Levant (region in Asia, area in Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia) Maritime history Ottoman Shipbuilding Wood supply Selected Publications Selected Publications: “Resolving Indigenous village occupations and social history across the long century of European permanent settlement in Northeastern North America: The Mohawk River Valley ~1450-1635 CE” Sturt W. Manning, Brita Lorentzen, and John P. Hart Published: October 15, 2021 Article Link “Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP” Sturt W. Manning, Brita Lorentzen, Lynn Welton, Stephen Batiuk, and Timothy P. Harrison Published: October 29, 2020 Article Link “Shipbuilding and maritime activity on the eve of mechanization: Dendrochronological analysis of the Akko Tower Shipwreck, Israel” Brita Lorentzen, Sturt W. Manning, and Deborah Cvikel July 24, 2020 Article Link