Ian Hodder

Ian Hodder is an archaeologist and the Dunlevie Family Professor Emeritus of anthropology at Stanford University. He directed the ÇatalhöyükÇatalhöyükA Neolithic site in central Anatolia where domestic houses combined dwelling with burial, symbolism and social memory.Glossary · Click to read the explanation Research Project from the excavation permit in 1993 until the project under his direction ended in 2018. In 2021 the project website announced that subsequent excavations were directed by Ali Ozan of Pamukkale University.

He is named here because, with Peter Pels, he read the decorated buildings with burials as houses as well, and because his article with Craig Cessford connected repeated building with social memorySocial memoryHow a group forms relationships to the past through narratives, practices, objects and places.Glossary · Click to read the explanation.

The photograph shows the south area at Çatalhöyük in 2003, under a modern shelter, during his project. It is not his portrait and not the houses as they stood in the Neolithic. ^{[1] [2]}