Susan Lawrence is a professor of archaeology at La Trobe University and has studied the Victorian goldfields for many years. She is the author of Dolly’s Creek: an archaeology of a Victorian goldfields community and (with Peter Davies) An archaeology of Australia since 1788.

Author email: s.lawrence@latrobe.edu.au

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