Ian Richard Hodder CMG FBA (born 23 November 1948, in Bristol) 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 and 1990.
[1] At this time he had such students as Henrietta Moore, Ajay Pratap, Nandini Rao, Mike Parker Pearson, Paul Lane, John Muke, Sheena Crawford, Nick Merriman, Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley.
[2] From 1993 - 2018, Hodder and an international team of archaeologists carried out new research and excavation of the 9,000-year-old Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia (modern Turkey).
He was the Director of the Çatalhöyük Archaeological Project which aimed to conserve the site, put it into context, and present it to the public.
He endeavoured to explore the effects of non-positivistic methods in archaeology, which included providing each excavator with the opportunity to record his or her own individual interpretation of the site.