Susan Lawrence
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Lawrence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawrence |
| SIGNATURE | LAWRENCE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4920-2776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Obituary
The much respected and loved psychoanalyst Ronald Britton died on 25 August 2025, aged 93. Britton’s erudition and devotion to psychoanalysis remained undiminished right up until his death. He touc
Interdisciplinary approaches to environmental histories of metal mining
Australia has tens of thousands of abandoned mines and mineral processing sites.Most are largely unknown and almost all are poorly managed.These places are the unruly heritage of past mining booms, the chaotic yet durable detritus of past places, events and processes that were and remain discarded, neglected and forgotten.Addressing the unruly heritage of mining's environmental legacy is a wicked problem with many and diverse stakeholders.Interdi…
In need of improvement
Patterns of river modification since settler invasion of southern Australia are the product of a specific set of deep-seated and implicit cultural values concerning the purpose and function of waterways. Rivers have been dammed, diverted, dredged and straightened to meet a range of human needs and objectives. Such changes are routinely described as ‘improvements’ but there is a lack of critical engagement with what ‘improvement’ might mean. Inter…
Characterising mine wastes as archaeological landscapes
Industrial‐scale metal mining has long been a feature of developing economies. Processing ores to recover minerals has generated large quantities of waste rock, tailings and contaminants. Mining‐related deposits, along with associated soil and water geochemistry, river modifications and other environmental changes, are a product of the nature, scale and intensity of past operations. These artefacts of historical mining create anthropogenic landsc…
Gold Rush Archaeology
The archaeology of gold and silver mining around the Pacific Rim in the nineteenth century incorporates the study of industrial technologies, landscapes, and the households and communities that arose in mining regions. Metals mining was a dynamic industry and miners could be both innovative and conservative as they selected technology appropriate for their local context. Evolutionary ecology, settlement pattern analysis, and cultural landscapes a…
Society and sediment in the Mining Rivers of California and Australia
Historical dredge mining as a significant anthropomorphic agent in river systems
Bucket dredging to mine and extract gold and tin from rivers is a global industry that has had a range of negative effects on physical environments. These include the destruction of riparian soil profiles and structures, artificial channel straightening and loss of in-stream biodiversity. In this paper we evaluate the immediate effects and long-term consequences of bucket dredging on rivers in Victoria and New South Wales during the period 1900–1…
Historical mercury losses from the gold mines of Victoria, Australia
Health and ecological risks associated with the use of mercury in gold mining are well known, with much recent attention focussed on contemporary small-scale artisanal mining. Legacy tailings from historical gold mining may also present ongoing risks, as the industry used large quantities of mercury with minimal environmental regulation to limit its discharge. This occurred in both alluvial (placer) mining and in processing auriferous ores. Analy…
Remade ground
Urbanisation is a transformative process that can dramatically reshape land surfaces. Archaeologists working in urban environments are often required to relate the outcomes of this process to the archaeological record. This is particularly true for pre-European Aboriginal cultural heritage, where the enduring presence of pre-contact ground surfaces has important implications for cultural heritage management. Accurately predicting which parts of a…
The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Archaeology presents a comprehensive treatment of the sub-discipline exploring key contemporary debates, and providing a series of specially commissioned geographical overviews. The book brings together 46 chapters by leading historical archaeologists and has been designed to offer a starting point for students who may wish to pursue particular topics in more depth, as well as for non-archaeologists who have a…
Mining modification of river systems
Mobilisation of large volumes of bedrock, regolith and soil has long been a characteristic feature of metal mining. Before the 20th century this was most efficiently achieved through harnessing the motive power of water. Large‐scale water use in mining produced waste sands, gravels and silts that were flushed downstream, triggering changes in stream and floodplain morphology and function. During the 19th century the shift from artisanal to indust…
Citizen of Empire
Engineered landscapes of the southern Murray-Darling Basin
Human activities over the past 200 years have fundamentally transformed the shape of Australia's southern Murray-Darling Basin. The arrival of British colonists in the 19th century disrupted millennia of human management of the region and brought widespread changes to biota and soils. The subsequent development of mining, transport and irrigation infrastructure re-engineered the region's landscapes to meet human objectives and ambitions. This art…
Archaeology and the Anthropocene in the Study of Settler Australia
Social, family and trauma risk factors for common disorders in Israeli youth
Grazing was not mining
The great land rush of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw vast swathes of temperate grazing land around the world pass into private hands. Commons and common lands, however, provided a vital interim mechanism in this shift from state control to private property ownership. Commons ensured continued and widespread access to natural resources, including water, minerals, soil, grass, and timber, that was integral to the colonial settler proj…
Reconstruction of historical riverine sediment production on the goldfields of Victoria, Australia
Current challenges and emerging signposts
This themed issue of the journal contains a collection of articles that were developed from presentations given at the European Association of Schools of Social Work (EASSW) conference, held in par
Melbourne
Introduction
Remote sensing landscapes of water management on the Victorian goldfields, Australia
The Archaeology of Water on the Victorian Goldfields
The archaeology of Anthropocene rivers
The role of artefact catalogues in Australian historical archaeology
Efforts to utilise catalogues prepared in the past two decades of digging in Australia are often hampered by errors and inconsistencies in data, lack of comprehensive reporting, and mismanagement of assemblages, their accompanying documentation and datahases. These problems are the result of difficulties affecting other aspects of the archaeological process, such as insufficient funding, training and systematic quantification of assemblages. In o…
Archaeologies of the British
Beginning with the early English colonisation of Ireland and Virginia, the international range of contributors in Archaeology of the British examine the interplay of objects and identity in Scotland and Wales, regional England, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka. Informed by developments in historical archaeology and by postcolonial scholarship, the case-studies in this volume look at the colonists themselves. The evidence dra…
An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788
Dolly's Creek
Between 1990 and 1992, a group of archaeologists mapped the remains of the settlement on the Moorabool and excavated four houses there. Like the miners, they were drawn to the site by the desire to dig for treasure. In Dolly's Creek, Susan Lawrence tells the story both of their archaeological research and of the community they uncovered. Dolly's Creek uses landscape, material objects and documents to gain an understanding of the nature of the dig…
Exporting Culture
Access to Health Care for Transgendered Persons
The transgender community is a population group that has experienced an increase in visibility, with only a small, concomitant increase in understanding. This study reports on four focus groups, in which 34 transgendered individuals discussed their experiences and interactions with the health care system. The specific aims of the study were as follows: Identify the health needs of transgender and transsexual (TG/TS) individuals; Hear the experien…
An ethnography of place
1998). An ethnography of place: Imagining ‘little Lon’. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 22, Urban cannibal: Romancing the Australian city, pp. 93-107
The Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia and New Zealand
Reconstruction of historical riverine sediment production on the goldfields of Victoria, Australia
Household Archaeology, Lifecycles and Status in a Nineteenth-Century Australian Coastal Community
Ethnographies of place
How might one tap the idioms of vanished communities once local knowledge has faded? How might one chart the mental landscapes of locales that have been overlaid by other people's understandings and whose material forms have been erased by urban redevelopment? This paper integrates history and archaeology as it attempts an ethnographic re-reading of one such precinct in Melbourne, Australia
Sources of Meat in Colonial Diets
The analysis of faunal assemblages from two nineteenth century Tasmanian whaling stations provides information about meat in colonial diets. The assemblages include a combination of native mammal, bird, and fish species and European domesticates. The presence of diverse native species indicates occasional opportunistic hunting rather than a significant incorporation of local fauna in the subsistence system. The bulk of meat consumed was beef, por…
Melbourne's ‘little Lon
How might one tap the idiom of vanished communities, once local knowledge has faded? How might one chart the mental landscapes of locales that have been overlaid by other people's understandings, and whose material forms have been erased by redevelopment? This paper integrates history and archaeology in order to reclaim the actualities of one city neighbourhood—Melbourne's ‘Little Lon—from the distorting realities fashioned by outside perceptions
Colonisation in the Industrial Age
Engineered landscapes of the southern Murray-Darling Basin
Human activities over the past 200 years have fundamentally transformed the shape of Australia's southern Murray-Darling Basin. The arrival of British colonists in the 19th century disrupted millennia of human management of the region and brought widespread changes to biota and soils. The subsequent development of mining, transport and irrigation infrastructure re-engineered the region's landscapes to meet human objectives and ambitions. This art…
Remote sensing landscapes of water management on the Victorian goldfields, Australia
The Sludge Question
Mining waste was a significant environmental problem in nineteenth-century Victoria, an Australian colony dependent on gold mining for its economic prosperity. Sludge from alluvial (placer) workings and hard-rock mining flowed into rivers across the colony causing significant damage and disruption to downstream communities. The sludge problem was eventually resolved by the passage of legislation early in the twentieth century. The struggle to con…
Distorting the Law
Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis. By William Haltom and Michael McCann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 332p. $55.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.If you, or anyone you know, believes that America is in the midst of a litigation crisis, then you must read this book
An introduction to ‘the age of migration’ and its consequences for the field of gerontological social work
Learning About Landscape
Landscape learning provides a model for examining how colonists in Australia came to terms with the landscape, positioning the environment at the centre of investigations into settler activity. The successful management of water was crucial in the colonising process, and settlers rapidly developed a sharp awareness of climate, soils and topography in their manipulation of environmental resources. Upon learning about climatic variability they buil…
Participation through Mobilization of the Law
This article examines the mobilization of law as a method of popular participation in judicial decision making. The author differentiates between reactive and proactive approaches, characterizing the first as participatory and the latter as representative or republican. She explores these modes of legal action in the context of institutions that provide counsel to the poor, searching for a structure that best combines responsiveness to the needs …
Ploughzone Archaeology On An Australian Historic Site
Archaeologists are often confronted with sites featuring post-occupation disturbance. At rural sites, this disturbance often comes in the form of agricultural activity, such as ploughing and grazing. These disturbances can call into question the value of site spatial relationships and broader data integrity. Between 2006 and 2007, archaeologists from La Trobe University and New Zealand-based consultancy firm Geometria carried out a programme of f…
The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Archaeology presents a comprehensive treatment of the sub-discipline exploring key contemporary debates, and providing a series of specially commissioned geographical overviews. The book brings together 46 chapters by leading historical archaeologists and has been designed to offer a starting point for students who may wish to pursue particular topics in more depth, as well as for non-archaeologists who have a…
Mining modification of river systems
Mobilisation of large volumes of bedrock, regolith and soil has long been a characteristic feature of metal mining. Before the 20th century this was most efficiently achieved through harnessing the motive power of water. Large‐scale water use in mining produced waste sands, gravels and silts that were flushed downstream, triggering changes in stream and floodplain morphology and function. During the 19th century the shift from artisanal to indust…
The Archaeology of Water on the Victorian Goldfields
Characterising mine wastes as archaeological landscapes
Industrial‐scale metal mining has long been a feature of developing economies. Processing ores to recover minerals has generated large quantities of waste rock, tailings and contaminants. Mining‐related deposits, along with associated soil and water geochemistry, river modifications and other environmental changes, are a product of the nature, scale and intensity of past operations. These artefacts of historical mining create anthropogenic landsc…
Melbourne
The Civil Servant and the Elected Person
Participation through Mobilization of the Law
This article examines the mobilization of law as a method of popular participation in judicial decision making. The author differentiates between reactive and proactive approaches, characterizing the first as participatory and the latter as representative or republican. She explores these modes of legal action in the context of institutions that provide counsel to the poor, searching for a structure that best combines responsiveness to the needs …
Activities and Appointments
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An ethnography of place
1998). An ethnography of place: Imagining ‘little Lon’. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 22, Urban cannibal: Romancing the Australian city, pp. 93-107
Ethnographies of place
How might one tap the idioms of vanished communities once local knowledge has faded? How might one chart the mental landscapes of locales that have been overlaid by other people's understandings and whose material forms have been erased by urban redevelopment? This paper integrates history and archaeology as it attempts an ethnographic re-reading of one such precinct in Melbourne, Australia
A Response to Chris McConville
(2000). A Response to Chris McConville. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 31, No. 115, pp. 328-330
Melbourne's ‘little Lon
How might one tap the idiom of vanished communities, once local knowledge has faded? How might one chart the mental landscapes of locales that have been overlaid by other people's understandings, and whose material forms have been erased by redevelopment? This paper integrates history and archaeology in order to reclaim the actualities of one city neighbourhood—Melbourne's ‘Little Lon—from the distorting realities fashioned by outside perceptions
The Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia and New Zealand
Dolly's Creek
Between 1990 and 1992, a group of archaeologists mapped the remains of the settlement on the Moorabool and excavated four houses there. Like the miners, they were drawn to the site by the desire to dig for treasure. In Dolly's Creek, Susan Lawrence tells the story both of their archaeological research and of the community they uncovered. Dolly's Creek uses landscape, material objects and documents to gain an understanding of the nature of the dig…
Sources of Meat in Colonial Diets
The analysis of faunal assemblages from two nineteenth century Tasmanian whaling stations provides information about meat in colonial diets. The assemblages include a combination of native mammal, bird, and fish species and European domesticates. The presence of diverse native species indicates occasional opportunistic hunting rather than a significant incorporation of local fauna in the subsistence system. The bulk of meat consumed was beef, por…
Gender and community structure on Australian colonial goldfields
Mining has played a prominent role in Australian culture and history, and in the modern heritage industry. Of the various kinds of mining in Australia, the gold industry had a widespread impact on the country as a whole because of its geographic, economic and demographic extent. Large quantities of gold were discovered in New South Wales and Victoria in 1851, setting off a series of rushes that by the end of the century had reached every colony a…
Tobacco control in developing countries
Sources of Meat in Colonial Diets
The analysis of faunal assemblages from two nineteenth century Tasmanian whaling stations provides information about meat in colonial diets. The assemblages include a combination of native mammal, bird, and fish species and European domesticates. The presence of diverse native species indicates occasional opportunistic hunting rather than a significant incorporation of local fauna in the subsistence system. The bulk of meat consumed was beef, por…
Archaeologies of the British
Historical Archaeology in the Antipodes
Exporting Culture
Access to Health Care for Transgendered Persons
The transgender community is a population group that has experienced an increase in visibility, with only a small, concomitant increase in understanding. This study reports on four focus groups, in which 34 transgendered individuals discussed their experiences and interactions with the health care system. The specific aims of the study were as follows: Identify the health needs of transgender and transsexual (TG/TS) individuals; Hear the experien…
Colonisation in the Industrial Age
Distorting the Law
Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis. By William Haltom and Michael McCann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 332p. $55.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.If you, or anyone you know, believes that America is in the midst of a litigation crisis, then you must read this book
Historical archaeology and colonialism
Colonisation involves the expansion of one state or polity into the territory of another and the establishment of settlements subject to that parent state. Expansion may be accomplished by conquest or by trade, and includes political, economic, social, cultural and psychological dimensions. Colonialism is the process by which new societies emerge in both the new territories and the core because of colonisation, and the new systems of relationship…
The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology
The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c. AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, industrial archaeology, maritime archaeology, cultural …
President’s Introduction
Natives and Newcomers in the Antipodes
Ploughzone Archaeology On An Australian Historic Site
Archaeologists are often confronted with sites featuring post-occupation disturbance. At rural sites, this disturbance often comes in the form of agricultural activity, such as ploughing and grazing. These disturbances can call into question the value of site spatial relationships and broader data integrity. Between 2006 and 2007, archaeologists from La Trobe University and New Zealand-based consultancy firm Geometria carried out a programme of f…
Annelies Verdoolaege, Reconciliation Discourse. Amsterdam
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