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The mystery elephant in the GAC room

Geelong Arts Centre has discovered an elephant bone and other odd objects on their reconstruction site.

16 Sep 2019

Alison Croggon

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Mysteries of Geelong’s past: why was the bone of a baby elephant found on the GAC site? Image Shutterstock.

Among many intriguing items discovered by archaeologists on the $38.5 million Ryrie Street redevelopment of Geelong Arts Centre (GAC – formerly known as GPAC) were yellowing newspapers, theatre tickets from the 1880s, a maths test – and the radius bone of a baby elephant.

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Alison Croggon

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Alison Croggon is an award-winning novelist, poet, theatre writer and critic. She has 30 years experience reviewing performance for outlets such as The Australian, the ABC and The Monthly and generated an international reputation as a performance critic with her influential blog Theatre Notes. In 2009 she was the first online critic to win the prestigious Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year Award. Twitter: @alisoncroggon