Andrew M. T. Moore

Andrew Michael Tangye Moore, also known as A. M. T. Moore, is a British archaeologist and academic. He is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

Early life

Andrew Moore was born in Devon, England. He read Modern History at the University of Oxford and in 1966 he joined Kathleen Kenyon's excavation in Jerusalem. From 1967 to 1969, he did postgraduate studies at the University of London under John Evans. He then undertook postgraduate research at the University of Oxford. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1978 with a doctoral thesis entitled The Neolithic of the Levant. His supervisor was Dame Kathleen Kenyon.^[1]

Academic career

He is currently director of the Abu Hureyra site and current president of the Archaeological Institute of America.^[2]

From 2000 to 2007, Moore served as the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Since 2007 he has been Dean of Graduate Studies at RIT.^[3]

In 2020, he joined the Comet Research Group 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,^[4][5] which has been comprehensively refuted by experts in archaeology, astronomy, and impact science.^[6]

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. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510806-4.

References

1. Moore, A. M. T. (1978). The neolithic of the Levant (DPhil). Oxford University Research Archive (Thesis). University of Oxford. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
2. New York Welcomes New AIA President Andrew M.T. Moore,
3. RIT News article on Andrew Moore's appointment to graduate dean June 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
4. Moore AM, Kennett JP, Napier WM, Bunch TE, Weaver JC, LeCompte M, Adedeji AV, Hackley P, et al. (6 March 2020). "Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria at the Younger Dryas Onset (~12.8 ka): High-temperature melting at >2200 °C" (PDF). Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 4185. Bibcode:2020NatSR..10.4185M. doi:10.1038/S41598-020-60867-W. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 7060197. PMID 32144395. Wikidata Q90119243. The wide range of evidence supports the hypothesis that a cosmic event occurred at Abu Hureyra ~12,800 years ago, coeval with impacts that deposited high-temperature meltglass, melted microspherules, and/or platinum at other YDB sites on four continents.
5. Fernandez S (2020-03-06). "Fire from the Sky" (Press release). University of California, Santa Barbara. from the original on 2021-07-06. Retrieved 2021-08-07. Based on materials collected before the site was flooded, Kennett and his colleagues contend Abu Hureyra is the first site to document the direct effects of a fragmented comet on a human settlement.
6. Holliday, Vance T.; Daulton, Tyrone L.; Bartlein, Patrick J.; Boslough, Mark B.; Breslawski, Ryan P.; Fisher, Abigail E.; Jorgeson, Ian A.; Scott, Andrew C.; Koeberl, Christian; Marlon, Jennifer; Severinghaus, Jeffrey; Petaev, Michail I.; Claeys, Philippe (2023-07-26). "Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH)". Earth-Science Reviews: 104502. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104502.