Ian Hodder

Ian Hodder ( born November 23, 1948 in Bristol ) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of Postprozessualismus in archeology.

Hodder is the son of the cultural geographers and Africa specialists EW Hodder. He studied in London and Cambridge, and received his doctorate at David L. Clarke. His other stations were Leeds Amsterdam, Paris, New York and Stanford. He became a professor at Cambridge in 1996. Hodder initiated 1974-1980 excavations in Kenya, Sudan, and in Calabria. Then he leads the investigations of Neolithic grave systems and megalithic sites in the area of Cambridge. Since 1990 he has headed the excavations at Çatalhöyük.

Since 2008, Hodder Professor of Social Anthropology at Stanford University in the United States.

His students include Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley, who demand a critical archeology.

His contributions to the theory debate, which initially made ​​him the Represented the " New Archaeology" of Clarke, the relevant discussions exerted a defining influence. Later, he developed the Postprozessualismus own direction. Detail to Hodder has been dealing with the context of material culture, which he considers the data not only in a political- okonomischen, but especially in the social - symbolic environment. Each artifact has a symbolic value, which is not generally valid, but situationally bound. The objects are available for Hodder always in relation to other objects and be understood by them. Hodder calls this view " contextual archeology ".

Works (selection)

  • Some applications of Spatial Analysis in Archaeology ( Diss )
  • Analysis and interpretation. In: A. Sherrat (ed.): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Munich 1980.
  • (Ed.), The Archaeology of contextual meanings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • (Ed.) Archaeological Theory in Europe: the last three Decades. London: Routledge, 1991.
  • The archaeological process: an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
  • Excavating Çatalhöyük: South, North and KOPAL area reports from the 1995-1999 seasons. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2006, Çatalhöyük Research Project 3
  • Çatalhöyük: the leopard 's tale: revealing the mysteries of Turkey 's ancient ' town'. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006.
  • Inhabiting Çatalhöyük: reports from the 1995-99 seasons. ( Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, London: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2005), BIAA monograph 38
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