Reflection

This contribution responds to the many insights about reuse and recycling generated by the contributors to this collection. Patterns of reuse are well known in archaeological and material-cultural circles and have been defined by a taxonomy of practices. As this collection suggests, however, it can be rewarding to apply these ideas beyond the material domain, and to think how they might help us understand the lives and afterlives of ideas, representations, texts, and landscapes. To think about reuse in this expansive way highlights processes or patterns that we may have missed by thinking about reuse primarily in the domain of the material.