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Ian Lindsay
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Office Phone: (765) 494-4682
Email: ilindsay@purdue.edu
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Origins of political complexity; ceramic analysis; landscapes as media for political authority; household archaeology; political economy; Caucasus
Professor Lindsay’s research focuses on the origins of complex polities in Southern Caucasia during the Bronze Age. Since 2000, he has worked in Armenia as a member of an international collaborative expedition called Project ArAGATS, together with scholars from the University of Chicago and Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Republic of Armenia. Prof. Lindsay’s ongoing excavations in Armenia center on a Late Bronze Age fortress lower town, where he is investigating the role of local communities in the creation of new sociopolitical institutions on the Tsaghkahovit Plain during the mid-2nd millennium B.C. He spent much of 2004 in Armenia on a Fulbright fellowship; additional funding for his research has come from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Social Science Research Council’s Eurasia Program.
Positions at Purdue University
2007 – present Assistant Professor