Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Agriculture; Chapter 2: Aquaculture; Chapter 3: Population and Housing; Chapter 4: Storage and Preservation; Chapter 5: Fire; Chapter 6: The Heavens, Language and the Law; Chapter 7: Australian Agricultural Revolution; Chapter 8. Accepting History and Creating the Future; Picture Credits; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonialAboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across thecontinent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behavioursinconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books supportthis premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenientlie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources
