Dr. Ian Lindsay

Biography

Ian Lindsay received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2006 and joined the Purdue University faculty in 2007. His research primarily focuses on the origins of complex societies in the South Caucasus. He is a co-director of the international collaborative expedition Project ArAGATS, which involves scholars from Cornell University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Republic of Armenia. Over the past 15 years, Lindsay's work has concentrated on the Tsaghkahovit Plain in northwestern Armenia, exploring domestic contexts based on Late Bronze Age hilltop fortresses and investigating the role of local communities in creating new sociopolitical institutions during the mid-2nd millennium BC. In his latest research phase, he employs unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for aerial surveys and photogrammetric analysis of archaeological landscapes. Previously, he served as the president of the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to fostering research collaborations in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. His research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Fulbright, and several other prestigious foundations.

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