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Ian Lindsay

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Ian Lindsay has worked in Armenia as a member of Project ArAGATS since 2000. He recently received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Purdue University. His general archaeological interests lean toward the regional origins of ancient political complexity, landscapes as media for political authority, and households and community formation. In his dissertation, entitled Late Bronze Age Power Dynamics in Southern Caucasia: A Community Perspective on Political Landscapes, Lindsay foregrounds the place of local populations in the creation of new sociopolitical institutions on the Tsaghkahovit Plain during the mid-2nd millennium B.C. In 2004 he spent a year in Armenia as a Fulbright scholar to complete his dissertation research and analysis, work which also benefited from grants through the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation.