Christopher Tilley

Chris Tilley is a British archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at University College London, known for his contributions to post-processualist archaeological theory.

Quotes

 * Discourse occurs at the silent level of the artefact and is continuously presenced in the world as such. It is a discourse which is not, and cannot be, articulated in speech.


 * When we link things metaphorically we recognise similarity in difference, we think one thing in terms of attributes of another.


 * To be human is to think through metaphors.


 * Metaphors are thus the very medium and outcome of our analysis.