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  • THE MATERIALITY OF STONE
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    THE MATERIALITY OF STONE
    CHRISTOPHER TILLEY
    With Wayne Bennett From the silky wax qualities of the surfaces of some quartz menhirs to the wood-grain textures of others, to the golden honeycombed limestones of Malta, to the icy frozen waves of the Cambrian sandstone of south-east Sweden, this book investigates the sensuous material qualities of stone. Tactile sensations, sonorous qualities, colour, and visual impressions ...

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  • INTERPRETATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY
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    INTERPRETATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY
    CHRISTOPHER TILLEY
    This fascinating volume integrates recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. The authors explore the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches radically alter our understanding of the past, and provide a series of innovative studies of key areas of int...

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  • RE-CONSTRUCTING ARCHAEOLOGY
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    RE-CONSTRUCTING ARCHAEOLOGY
    MICHAEL SHANKS / CHRISTOPHER TILLEY
    InRe-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the `new' archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as pracitce in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as ovjects of analysis but as part of a social w...

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  • STONE WORLDS
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    STONE WORLDS
    BARBARA BENDER / SUE HAMILTON / CHRISTOPHER TILLEY
    This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England, especially the site of Leskernick. The result is a multivocal, multidisciplinary telling of the stories of Bodmin Moor—both ...

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  • THE DOLMENS AND PASSAGE GRAVES OF SWEDEN
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    THE DOLMENS AND PASSAGE GRAVES OF SWEDEN
    CHRISTOPHER TILLEY
    This book is the first comprehensive introduction and guide to Sweden’s most spectacular Stone Age monuments: the dolmens and passage graves, which began to be constructed over 5000 years ago. The introduction provides a detailed social interpretation of these monuments outlining how and why they were built and the ways in which they related to economy and landscape, politics,...

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  • BODY AND IMAGE
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    BODY AND IMAGE
    CHRISTOPHER TILLEY
    The understanding and interpretation of ancient architecture, landscapes, and art has always been viewed through an iconographic lens—a cognitive process based on traditional practices in art history. But ancient people did not ascribe their visions on canvas, rather on hills, stones, and fields. Thus, Chris Tilley argues, the iconographic approach falls short of understanding ...

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  • INTERPRETING LANDSCAPES
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    INTERPRETING LANDSCAPES
    CHRISTOPHER TILLEY
    This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation over the long durée. Gran...

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  • MATERIAL CULTURE AND TEXT
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    MATERIAL CULTURE AND TEXT
    CHRISTOPHER TILLEY
    Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology. It tackles the most basic problem of historical and archaeological analysis - the relationship between text and artefact – in an analysis of prehistoric art fusing theory and the practice of interpretation to create a fresh framework for understanding t...

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  • THINKING THROUGH IMAGES
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    THINKING THROUGH IMAGES
    CHRISTOPHER TILLEY
    This book provides a general self-reflexive review and critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art from the standpoint of Chris Tilley’s research in this area over the last thirty years. It offers a novel alternative theoretical perspective stressing the significance of visual narrative structure and rhythm, using musical analogies, putting particular emphasis on the embodied pe...

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