Dark emu : black seeds agriculture or accident? / Bruce Pascoe.
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TextPublisher: Broome, Western Australia Magabala Books, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 173 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781922142436 (paperback)Subject(s): Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities | Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs | Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture | Land use, Rural -- Australia | Hunting and gathering societies -- AustraliaDDC classification: 338.7630994 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Young Adult | J 388 .763 0994 PAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | al42000202053b |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-171) and index.
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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