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. ISBN 9781922142436 (paperback)

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