Ian Hodder (Bristol, 23 novembre1948) è un archeologobritannico, pioniere della teoria postprocessualista in archeologia che per primo ha messo radici tra i suoi studenti e nel suo lavoro tra il 1980-1990.
In quel periodo aveva tra i suoi studenti Henrietta Moore, Ajay Pratap, Nandini Rao, Mike Parker Pearson, Paul Lane, John Muke, Sheena Crawford, Nick Merriman, Michael Shanks e Christopher Tilley. A partire dal 2002, è Dunlevie Family Professor di Antropologia presso la Università di Stanford negli Stati Uniti.[1]
Spatial analysis in archaeology (1976, with C. Orton)
Symbols in action. Ethnoarchaeological studies of material culture (1982)
The Present Past. An introduction to anthropology for archaeologists (1982)
Reading the Past. Current approaches to interpretation in archaeology (1986) (revised 1991 and, with Scott Hutson, 2003)
The Domestication of Europe: structure and contingency in Neolithic societies (1990)
Theory and Practice in Archaeology (1992) (Collected papers)
On the Surface: Çatalhöyük 1993-95 (1996) As editor, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. ISBN 0-9519420-3-4.
The Archaeological Process. An introduction (1999)
Balter, Michael. The Goddess and the Bull: Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization. New York: Free Press, 2004 (hardcover, ISBN 0-7432-4360-9); Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2006 (paperback, ISBN 1-59874-069-5).
Kerig, Tim. Ian Hodder und die britische Archäologie. In M. K. H. Eggert & U. Veit (eds.). Theorien in der Archäologie: Zur englischsprachigen Diskussion. Tübinger Archaeologische Taschenbücher 1, pp. 217-242. Münster: Waxmann 1998 (paperback ISBN 3-89325-594-X).