Introduction: Starting a conversation with landscape

This chapter presents a longer answer, and explores this issue of human-landscape relationship with a little more depth. The premise for the research is based on a landscape archaeology project conducted over several seasons of investigation. Residuality in a landscape archaeology context is landscape entities and their material resilience to alteration while other aspects of the landscape change. The upshot of using a temporal concept such as this one is that it literally keeps ones feet on the ground, situated in the concreteness of the data by examining the patterns of material organisation that archaeologists deal with on a day-to-day basis. Instead of thinking only about the material in terms of spatial organisation we can also examine the organisation in terms of time: as material events. The chapter explains the Bricolage in this way allows us to establish concrete connections between what we might call residual things in a landscape that continue to have a material presence.