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.
[2] From 2000 to 2007, Moore served as the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology (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.