Ian Hodder joined the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology in September of 1999 and currently serves as the Chair of the Department. His interests include post-processual archaeology and material culture. Professor Hodder has been conducting the excavation of the 9,000 year-old Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk
[link] in central Turkey. 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.
Among his publications are: Symbols in Action (Cambridge 1982), Reading the Past (Cambridge 1986), The Domestication of Europe (Oxford 1990), and The Archaeological Process (Oxford 1999). He is continuing his research into archaeological theory and has recently published a volume of his collected papers 'Archaeology beyond Dialogue' (Utah 2004)...
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