Editing Ian Hodder (section)

==Early life and education==
Hodder was born on 23 November 1948 in [[Bristol]], England,<ref name="OCArch" /> to Professor [[Dick Hodder|Bramwell William "Dick" Hodder]] and his wife Noreen Victoria Hodder.<ref name="WW 2020" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Dick Hodder (15 November 1923 - 12 September 2006) |url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/dick-hodder-8j7gv7psf27 |access-date=27 January 2021 |work=[[The Times]] |date=24 November 2006 |language=en}}</ref> He was brought up in Singapore and in Oxford, England.<ref name="OCArch">{{cite book |editor1-last=Bauer |editor1-first=Alexander A. |editor2-last=Silberman |editor2-first=Neil Asher |title=The Oxford Companion to Archaeology |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |pages=683–684 |isbn=978-0-19-973578-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xeJMAgAAQBAJ}}</ref> He was educated at [[Magdalen College School, Oxford]], then an all-boys [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private school]].<ref name="OCArch" />

He studied prehistoric archaeology at the [[UCL Institute of Archaeology|Institute of Archaeology]] of the [[University of London]], graduating with a [[British undergraduate degree classification#First Class Honours|first class]] [[Bachelor of Arts]] (BA) in 1971.<ref name="Hodder CV" /> He then studied at [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]], and was awarded a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] (PhD) degree by the [[University of Cambridge]] in 1975:<ref name="WW 2020">{{Who's Who | title=HODDER, Prof. Ian Richard | id = U20351 | volume = 2020 | edition = online}}</ref> his supervisor was [[David L. Clarke]] and his thesis was titled "''Some Applications of Spatial Analysis in Archaeology''".<ref name="OCArch" /><ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Hodder |first1=I. R. |title=Some Applications of Spatial Analysis in Archaeology. |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.459397 |website=E-Thesis Online Service |publisher=The British Library |access-date=27 January 2021 |date=1975|type=Ph.D }}</ref>