[4] He then went on to study for a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Aegean and Anatolian prehistory at the University of Bristol, graduating in 1987.
[4] He undertook postgraduate study at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1996.
[2] His supervisor was John F. Cherry,[5] and his doctoral thesis was titled This small world the great: an island archaeology of the early Cyclades.
[9][10] In addition, he is the Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,[11] and a Professorial Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
[14][15] His monograph The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World (Thames and Hudson.