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248:, arguing that it was simply designed to collect "more and more information about the past", most of which would remain unpublished and of no use to either archaeologists or the public. As he related, "The number of pieces of information we collect about the past may increase incrementally – our understanding does not." Instead he argued that the archaeological community in the western nations should cease their constant accumulation of new data from rescue digs and instead focus on producing interpretive frameworks with which to interpret it, and also on publishing the backlog of data produced from decades of excavation. 703: 40: 723: 363: 267:, in terms of their meanings to people in the past, and has been influential in both Britain and the United States. In the late 1990s, Tilley worked with 185:. In the early 1980s, Hodder and his students at Cambridge first developed postprocessualism, an approach to archaeology stressing the importance of 500: 235:
attempts to control the past, asserting that "there is no way of choosing between alternative pasts except on essentially political grounds."
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of first wave postprocessualist archaeologists, and was particularly critical of what he saw as the negative political implications of
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Bender, Barbara; Hamilton, Sue, and Tilley, Christopher. (1997). Leskernick: Stone worlds, alternative narratives, nested landscapes.
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Tilley, Christopher (1990). Reading Material Culture: Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
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Bender, Barbara; Hamilton, Sue, and Tilley, Christopher. (1999). Bronze Age stone worlds of Bodmin Moor: excavating Leskernick.
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interpretations of the archaeological record have no more legitimacy than any other, and they view claims to the contrary as
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Bender, B, Hamilton, S., and Tilley, C. (1997). Leskernick: Stone worlds, alternative narratives, nested landscapes.
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Hamilton, S., Tilley, C. and Bender, B. (1999). Bronze Age stone worlds of Bodmin Moor: excavating Leskernick.
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Bender, Barbara; Hamilton, Sue, and Tilley, Christopher (2003). Art and re-presentation of the past.
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Tilley, Christopher (1991). Material Culture and Text: The Art of Ambiguity. London: Routledge.
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This article is about the British archaeologist. For the American professional shooter, see
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The Materiality of Stone: Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology
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Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology
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Tilley obtained his PhD in Anthropology and Archaeology at the
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entails the 'intuitive' study of material things, especially
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Bender, Barbara; Hamilton, Sue; Tilley, Christopher (2007).
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A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments
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In a 1989 paper of his published in the academic journal
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Tilley, Christopher (1989). "Excavation as theatre".
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Available as an open access download from UCL Press.
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Available as an open access download from UCL Press.
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Chris Tilley (marksman)
Tilley, an older white man with grey hair, kneeling while sieving a soil sample.
Alma mater
University of Cambridge
Ian Hodder
Archaeology
Post-processual archaeology
University of Cambridge
University College London
archaeologist
post-processual
archaeological theory
Anthropology
Archaeology
University College London
University of Cambridge
Ian Hodder
interpretation
subjectivity
Neo-Marxist
Frankfurt School
Daniel Miller
relativist
positivist
processual archaeology
structuralist
Michael Shanks
Peter Ucko
academic
elitist

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