Advisory Council

Ian HODDER: Ian is a Dunlevie Family Professor and Chair of the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University since 1999. His work focuses on archaeology, archaeological theory, material culture, and excavation in Turkey.

Ian has been conducting the excavation of the 9,000 year-old Neolithic site of the Catalhoyuk in central Anatolia. The 25-year project has three aims - to place the art from the site in its full environmental, economic and social context, to conserve the paintings, plasters and mud walls, and to present the site to the public. The project is also associated with attempts to develop reflexive methods in archaeology.

Ian has also been directing TEMPER, a project funded by the European Union to develop site management and training programs for five sites in the Eastern Mediterranean.

He obtained his B.A. degree in Prehistoric Archeology from London University in 1971 and a PhD on "spatial analysis in archaeology" from Cambridge University in 1975. He became a Professor of Archeology in 1996.

Ian is continuing his research into archaeological theory and has recently published a volume of his collected papers 'Archaeology beyond Dialogue'. Some of his other publications are: Symbols in Action (Cambridge 1982), Reading the Past (Cambridge 1986), The Domestication of Europe (Oxford 1990), and The Archaeological Process (Oxford 1999).