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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.

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To be human is to think through metaphors.

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

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.

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