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- ↑ Australian Museum Staff Profiles
- ↑ Australian Academy of the Humanities Honorary Fellows
- ↑ Attenbrow, Valerie (2010), Sydney's Aboriginal past : investigating the archaeological and historical records (2nd ed.), University of New South Wales Press, ISBN 978-1-74223-116-7
- ↑ "John Mulvaney Book Award". Australian Archaeological Association. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ↑ "Val Attenbrow | Australian Archaeological Association | AAA". australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ↑ "Fellows: Valerie Attenbrow". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ↑ AustArchAssoc (13 December 2019). "#AAA42 Congratulations to the winner of the Rhys Jones Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Archaeologypic.twitter.com/5lIHxhYqPH". @AustArchaeology. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
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