Richard Hodges (archaeologist)

Richard Hodges ( born September 29, 1952) is a British medieval archaeologist who is primarily concerned with trade and economic history of the early European Middle Ages.

From 1995 to 2007 he was Professor and Director of the Institute of World Archaeology at the University of East Anglia. From 2007 to 2012 Hodges was director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Since 2012 he has been President of the American University of Rome.

Publications (selection )

• The Hamwic Pottery: the local and imported wares from thirty years' excavations in Southampton and Their European context. London 1981.
• Together with Graeme Barker: Archaeology and Italian Society. Oxford 1982.
• Dark Age Economics: The Origins of Town and Trade. London / New York 1982.
• Primitive and Peasant Markets. Oxford 1988.
• The Anglo - Saxon Achievement: Archaeology and the beginnings of English Society. London / Ithaca 1989.
• Early Medieval archeology in Western Europe: its history and development. Bangor 1991.
• Wall-to -Wall History: The Story of Roystone Grange. London 1991 ( winner of the British Archaeological book of the year 1992).
• Light in the Dark Ages. The Rise and Fall of San Vincenzo al Volturno. London / Ithaca 1997.
• Towns and Trade in the Age Charlemagne. London 2000.
• Visions of Rome. Thomas Ashby, Archaeologist. London 2000.