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British archaeologist (1955–2024)

This article is about the British archaeologist. For the American professional shooter, see Chris Tilley (marksman).

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Tilley (1955–2024) was a British archaeologist known for his contributions to post-processualarchaeological theory. He retired as emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at University College London in 2022.^[1]

Tilley obtained his PhD in Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, where he was a student of Ian Hodder.

In the early 1980s, Hodder and his students at Cambridge first developed postprocessualism, an approach to archaeology stressing the importance of interpretation and subjectivity, strongly influenced by the Neo-MarxistFrankfurt School.

Tilley and his early collaborator Daniel Miller were amongst the most strongly relativist of first wave postprocessualist archaeologists, and was particularly critical of what he saw as the negative political implica