Editing Ian Hodder

{{Short description|British archaeologist}}
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| caption           = Hodder at Çatalhöyük, 2003
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| birth_place       = [[Bristol]], England
| citizenship       = British
| spouse            = [[Francoise Hivernel]] 1975-1984, <br /> [[Christine Hastorf]] -2009, <br /> [[Lynn Meskell]]
| fields            = [[Archaeology]], [[Anthropology]]
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* [[University of Leeds]]
* [[University of Cambridge]]
* [[Darwin College, Cambridge]]
* [[Stanford University]] }}
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| known_for         = Pioneering [[post-processual archaeology]]
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'''Ian Richard Hodder''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CMG|FBA}} (born 23 November 1948, in [[Bristol]]) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of [[post-processual archaeology|postprocessualist]] theory in [[archaeology]] that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980 and 1990.<ref name="HivernelHodder">{{cite book|last1=Hivernel|first1=Francoise|last2=Hodder|first2=Ian|editor1-last=Hodder|editor1-first=Ian|title=Analysis of artifact distribution at Ngenyn (Kenya): Depositional and postdepositional effects|date=1984|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|pages=97–115}}</ref> 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 (archaeologist)|Michael Shanks]] and [[Christopher Tilley]]. {{As of|2002}}, he is Dunlevie Family Professor of Anthropology at [[Stanford University]] in the United States.<ref name="Hodder CV">{{citation | title=Curriculum Vitae - Ian Hodder | url=https://stanford.academia.edu/IanHodder/CurriculumVitae}}</ref>

==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>

==Academic career==
He was a lecturer at the [[University of Leeds]] from 1974 to 1977.<ref name="WW 2020" /> 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.<ref name="Hodder CV" /> From 1990 to 2000, he was director of the [[Cambridge Archaeological Unit]] and a [[Fellow (Oxbridge)|Fellow]] of [[Darwin College, Cambridge]].<ref name="WW 2020" /> The university appointed him [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]] in Prehistory in 1990 and Professor of Archaeology in 1996.<ref name="Hodder CV" />

In 1999, Hodder moved to [[Stanford University]] in the United States. He became Dunlevie Family Professor in 2002.<ref name="Hodder CV"/>

From 1993 - 2018, Hodder and an international team of archaeologists 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#Archaeology|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-[[positivism|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."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.science.org/content/article/hodder-cleans-house-famed-atalh-y-k-dig | title=Hodder Cleans House at Famed Çatalhöyük Dig }}</ref> His permit was completed in 2018 when handed over the site to a Turkish team.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.catalhoyuk.com/project/history | title=History of the Excavations | date=30 October 2015 }}</ref>

He was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA) in 1996.<ref name="FBA">{{cite web |title=Professor Ian Hodder FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/ian-hodder-FBA/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=26 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name="LG 62666">{{London Gazette |issue= 62666 |date= 8 June 2019 |pages= B3-B4 |supp= y }}</ref>

==Selected publications==
*''Spatial analysis in archaeology'' (1976, with C. Orton)
*''Symbols in action. Ethnoarchaeological studies of material culture'' (1982)
*''The Present Past. An introduction to anthropology for archaeologists'' (1982)
*''Symbolic and Structural Archaeology'' (1982)
*''Reading the Past. Current approaches to interpretation in archaeology'' (1986) (revised 1991 and, with Scott Hutson, 2003)
*''The Domestication of Europe: Structure and contingency in Neolithic societies'' (1990)
*''Theory and Practice in Archaeology'' (1992) (Collected papers)
*''On the Surface: Çatalhöyük 1993–95'' (1996), as editor, Cambridge:  McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.  {{ISBN|0-9519420-3-4}}.
*''The Archaeological Process. An introduction'' (1999)
*''Archaeological Theory Today'' (2001)
*''Archaeology beyond dialogue'' (2004) (Collected papers)
*''The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük'' (2006)
*''Religion in the Emergence of Civilization. Çatalhöyük as a case study'' (2010)
*''Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things'' (2012)
*''Where Are We Heading? The Evolution of Humans and Things'' (2018)

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Balter, Michael. ''The Goddess and the Bull: Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization.'' New York: Free Press, 2004 (hardcover, {{ISBN|0-7432-4360-9}}); Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2006 (paperback, {{ISBN|1-59874-069-5}}).
* Kerig, Tim. Ian Hodder und die britische Archäologie. In: M. K. H. Eggert & U. Veit (Eds.): Theorien in der Archäologie: Zur englischsprachigen Diskussion. Tübinger Archaeologische Taschenbucher 1. p.&nbsp;217-242. Münster: Waxmann 1998 (paperback {{ISBN|3-89325-594-X}}).

==External links==
*[http://www.ian-hodder.com Home page for Ian Hodder]
*[https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/109 Home page at Stanford University, Department of Anthropology]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131216223404/https://www.stanford.edu/dept/archaeology/cgi-bin/drupal/view/faculty?q=node%2F317 Home page at Stanford Archaeology Center]
*[http://www.scahome.org/about_ca_archaeology/1999_Hodder.html Interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329192627/http://www.scahome.org/about_ca_archaeology/1999_Hodder.html |date=29 March 2013 }} with the [[Society for California Archaeology]] in 1999
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ian-hodder-%C3%A7atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk-religion-templetons-25_us_58fe2a64e4b0f02c3870ecf0 Interview with Ian Hodder March 2017 "Ian Hodder: Çatalhöyük, Religion & Templeton’s 25%"]

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