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Europeans brought with them to Australia the need and desire for all kinds of manufactured items. Settlers arrived with many goods from home, but others had to be created from materials at hand. Early houses, for example, were built from timber, bark, mud and clay, with more substantial homes constructed of brick and stone. Furniture, from rough bush tables to fine cedar cabinets, was crafted from native forest timbers. Dining tables were laid with Staffordshire crockery, but kitchens, dairies and storerooms needed robust, utilitarian wares provided by colonial potters. As settlement expanded, people needed carts and drays to haul their goods, tools to clear and cultivate the land and utensils to churn butter, mould candles and create the many other necessities of daily life. Flour mills, tanneries, salt works, cordial factories, breweries and many other processors emerged in towns and cities to transform raw materials into consumer goods.
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Lawrence, S., Davies, P. (2011). Manufacturing and Processing. In: An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7485-3_8
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