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Local and Global Lessons from 20 Cesspits from Australia

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Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia

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This chapter summarises the aims of the book and presents an extended discussion of the theoretical and methodological consequences of comparing cesspit assemblages from two Australian colonial cities.

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Murray, T., Crook, P. (2019). Local and Global Lessons from 20 Cesspits from Australia. In: Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27169-5_11

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