Community Engagement in Archaeology
by Dr. Ian Hodder

Ian Hodder, Dunlevie Family Professor of Stanford University and excavator since 1993 of the 9,000 year old Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk in central Turkey, discusses how archaeologists have an obligation to educate the community in which they work about the site's environmental, economic, and social context, to conserve the site's paintings, plasters, and mud walls, to present the site to the public, and to develop reflexive methods in archaeology.