Dark emu : black seeds : agriculture or accident? / Bruce Pascoe.
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Broome, Western Australia :
Magabala Books,
2014.
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| Format: | Book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Notes: | Bib#: 2125022 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-171) and index. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9781922142436 (pbk.) 1922142433 (pbk.) |
| Bib#: | 2125022 |
