Ian Hodder FBA

Born in 1948 Ian Hodder is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980-1990.

Since 1993, Hodder and an international team of archaeologists have carried out new research and excavation of the 9,000 year-old Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia. He is Director of the Çatalhöyük Archaeological Project which aims to conserve the site, put it into context, and present it to the public. He has endeavoured to explore the effects of non-positivistic methods in archaeology, which includes providing each excavator with the opportunity to record his or her own individual interpretation of the site.