"An Out-Of-The-Way Little Place"? Global And Local (Dis)Connections At St Lawrence, Queensland, Australia.

Summary

This paper explores the complex and diverse connections between people, places and material culture in the past through a case study from Queensland, Australia. Established in c.1860 as part of the development of pastoral and mining industries in Central Queensland, today the former thriving port settlement of St Lawrence is a small, little-known town. Historical, material and spatial evidence from distinct but interconnected archaeological sites within the settlement are integrated to explore the networks of interaction in which St Lawrence and its inhabitants were once connected, however tenuously, prior to the arrival of the railway to the town in 1921. Related issues of isolation and integration, common to many rural towns in this period, are also considered. This paper demonstrates the potential of a multiscalar, network approach to investigate colonial places, and contributes to understanding emergent capitalist globalisation in a distant corner of the world.

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