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Author Pascoe, Bruce, 1947- author.

Title Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture / Bruce Pascoe
Published Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Summary 'Dark Emu injects a profound authenticity into the conversation about how we Australians understand our continent ... [It is] essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Australia once was, or what it might yet be if we heed the lessons of long and sophisticated human occupation.' Judges for 2016 NSW Premier's Literary AwardsDark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating,
Notes Committed to retain 20170101 20321231 COPPUL SPAN Monograph BVIV
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Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture.
Land use, Rural -- Australia
Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia
Wadi Wadi people D4
Yuin people S67
Ngiyampaa / Ngempa people D22
Dhauwurd Wurrung people S20
History - Theory and criticism - Sources.
Fishing - Fish traps.
Habitation - Camps - Hearths, ovens, fireplaces etc.
Food - Plants - Yams.
Housing - Shelters.
Subsistence and economy - Seasonality.
Food - Plants - Seeds / Flour.
Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European.
Water supply - Wells and bores.
Buildings - Architecture and design.
Buildings - Construction.
Food - Preparation - Cooking.
Technology - Fire.
Plants - Nardoo.
Food - Preparation - Leaching.
Plants - Grasses.
Animals - Marine mammals - Whales.
Settlement and contacts - Colonisation.
Plants - Pandanus.
Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Burial.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture
Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Hunting and gathering societies
Land use, Rural
Brewarrina (N NSW SH55-06)
Colac (W Vic SJ54-12)
Tae Rak / Lake Condah (W Vic SJ54-11)
Australia
SUBJECT Indigenous Knowledges Resources Collection
Reading List IND710 prescribed text 2025
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1925768953
9781925768954
9781925768961
1925768961