Title Dark emu : black seeds agriculture or accident? / Bruce Pascoe

Published Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2014 ©2014

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Description 173 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm regular print Summary Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing-behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources Bibliography Includes bibliography (pages 160-171) and index Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture. Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities. Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs. Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia. Land use, Rural -- Australia. Habitation - Camps - Hearths, ovens, fireplaces etc Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European Settlement and contacts - Colonisation Subsistence and economy - Seasonality History - Theory and criticism - Sources Fishing - Fish traps Food - Plants - Yams Food - Plants - Seeds / Flour Housing - Shelters Buildings - Architecture and design Buildings - Construction Food - Preparation - Cooking Food - Preparation - Leaching Water supply - Wells and bores Technology - Fire Plants - Nardoo Plants - Grasses Plants - Pandanus Animals - Marine mammals - Whales Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Burial Dhauwurd Wurrung people S20 Ngiyampaa / Ngempa people D22 Wadi Wadi people D4 Yuin people S67 Brewarrina (N NSW SH55-06) Colac (W Vic SJ54-12) Tae Rak / Lake Condah (W Vic SJ54-11) SUBJECT Indigenous Knowledges Resources Collection Genre/Form Indigenous knowledges ISBN 9781922142436 (paperback)

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