John F. Cherry is a British-American prehistorian and archaeologist, specialising in Aegean prehistory and survey archaeology.
From 1966 to 1969, he studied Latin and Greek at the University of Bristol, graduating with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.
He then studied classical archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in anthropology in 1973.
[1][2] Cherry started his teaching career as a junior research fellow and lecturer at the University of Sheffield between 1978 and 1980.
[6] He currently co-directs the Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat project (SLAM) in the West Indies, and has co-directed the Vorotan Project in Southern Armenia and archaeological surveys of Melos, Northern Keos and the Nemea Valley in southern Greece.