Ian Hodder

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Ian Hodder
Born (1948-11-23) 23 November 1948 (age 75)
Bristol, England
CitizenshipBritish
Alma mater University of London
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Known forPioneering post-processual archaeology
Scientific career
Fields Archaeology, Anthropology
Institutions

Ian Richard Hodder CMG FBA (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 and 1990. [1] 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. [2]

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Early life and education

Hodder was born on 23 November 1948 in Bristol, England, [3] to Professor Bramwell William "Dick" Hodder and his wife Noreen Victoria Hodder. [4] [5] He was brought up in Singapore and in Oxford, England. [3] He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, then an all-boys private school. [3]

He studied prehistoric archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1971. [2] He then studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the University of Cambridge in 1975: [4] his supervisor was David L. Clarke and his thesis was titled "Some Applications of Spatial Analysis in Archaeology". [3] [6]

Academic career

He was a lecturer at the University of Leeds from 1974 to 1977. [4] He then returned to the University of Cambridge, where he was an assistant lecturer (1977 to 1981) and then lecturer (1981 to 1990) in archaeology. [2] From 1990 to 2000, he was director of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. [4] The university appointed him Reader in Prehistory in 1990 and Professor of Archaeology in 1996. [2]

In 1999, Hodder moved to Stanford University in the United States. He became Dunlevie Family Professor in 2002. [2]

From 1993 - 2018, 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 was the Director of the Çatalhöyük Archaeological Project which aimed to conserve the site, put it into context, and present it to the public. He endeavoured to explore the effects of non-positivistic methods in archaeology, which included providing each excavator with the opportunity to record his or her own individual interpretation of the site. In 2012 he dismissed most of the team, replacing them with other excavators and specialists, citing a need for a "shake up." [7] His permit was completed in 2018 when handed over the site to a Turkish team. [8]

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1996. [9] In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours he was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to archaeology and UK/Turkey relations. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Hivernel, Francoise; Hodder, Ian (1984). Hodder, Ian (ed.). Analysis of artifact distribution at Ngenyn (Kenya): Depositional and postdepositional effects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 97–115.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Curriculum Vitae - Ian Hodder
  3. 1 2 3 4 Bauer, Alexander A.; Silberman, Neil Asher, eds. (2012). The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 683–684. ISBN   978-0-19-973578-5.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "HODDER, Prof. Ian Richard" . Who's Who . Vol. 2020 (online ed.). A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ↑ "Dick Hodder (15 November 1923 - 12 September 2006)". The Times. 24 November 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  6. ↑ Hodder, I. R. (1975). Some Applications of Spatial Analysis in Archaeology. E-Thesis Online Service (Ph.D). The British Library. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  7. ↑ https://www.science.org/content/article/hodder-cleans-house-famed-atalh-y-k-dig
  8. ↑ https://www.catalhoyuk.com/project/history
  9. ↑ "Professor Ian Hodder FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. pp. B3–B4.

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