Andrew Michael Tangye Moore, also known as A. M. T. Moore, is a British

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

and academic. He is a professor at the

Rochester Institute of Technology The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private university, private research university in Henrietta, New York, a suburb of Rochester, New York, Rochester. It was founded in 1829. It is one of only two institute of technology, institut ...

(RIT).

Early life

Andrew Moore was born in Devon, England. He read Modern History at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

and in 1966 he joined

Kathleen Kenyon Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called ...

's excavation in

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

. From 1967 to 1969, he did postgraduate studies at the

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under John Evans. He then undertook

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at the University of Oxford. He completed his

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(DPhil) degree in 1978 with a

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entitled ''The Neolithic of the Levant''. His supervisor was Dame Kathleen Kenyon.

Academic career

He is currently director of the Abu Hureyra site and current president of the

Archaeological Institute of America The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is North America, North America's oldest learned society and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology. AIA professionals have carried out archaeological fieldwork around the world and ...

.New York Welcomes New AIA President Andrew M.T. Moore
From 2000 to 2007, Moore served as the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at

(RIT). Since 2007 he has been Dean of Graduate Studies at RIT. In 2020, he joined the

Comet Research Group The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cool period (stadial) at the end of the Last Glacial Period, around 12,900 years ago was the result of some kind of cosmic event with specific details var ...

and collaborated with them on research that reported high concentrations of iridium, platinum, nickel, and cobalt at the Younger Dryas boundary in material from Abu Hureyra. They concluded that the evidence supports the

Younger Dryas impact hypothesis The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cool period (stadial) at the end of the Last Glacial Period, around 12,900 years ago was the result of some kind of cosmic event with specific details var ...

, which has been comprehensively refuted by experts in archaeology, astronomy, and impact science.

Publications

* Moore, Andrew M. T., Hillman, Gordon C., and Legge, Anthony J. (2000)
Village on the Euphrates: From Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureyra
585 pages.

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. .

References

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