Ian Hodder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ian Hodder

British archaeologist

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1948

Place of Birth: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist, prehistorian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Ian Hodder

  • Ian Richard Hodder (born 23 November 1948 in Bristol) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980-1990.
  • At this time he had such students as Henrietta Moore, Ajay Pratap, Nandini Rao, Mike Parker Pearson, Paul Lane, John Muke, Sheena Crawford, Nick Merriman, Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley.
  • As of 2002, he is Dunlevie Family Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University in the United States.Since 1993, Hodder and an international team of archaeologists have carried out new research and excavation of the 9,000-year-old Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia (modern Turkey).
  • He is Director of the Çatalhöyük Archaeological Project which aims to conserve the site, put it into context, and present it to the public.
  • He has endeavoured to explore the effects of non-positivistic methods in archaeology, which includes providing each excavator with the opportunity to record his or her own individual interpretation of the site. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with First-Class Honors in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of London in 1971, and a PhD on "spatial analysis in archaeology" at the University of Cambridge in 1974.
  • He was a lecturer at the University of Leeds from 1974 to 1977 before moving back to Cambridge, where he held several academic positions, including Professor of Archaeology from 1996 to 1999.
  • He moved to Stanford in 1999 and became Dunlevie Family Professor in 2002, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996.
  • He received an award on the Queen's 2019 Birthday Honours List for his services to archaeology and UK/Turkey relations.

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