TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pascoe,Bruce
TI  - Dark emu: black seeds agriculture or accident? 
SN  - 9781922142436 (paperback)
U1  - 338.7630994 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Broome, Western Australia
PB  - Magabala Books
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Land use, Rural
KW  - Australia
KW  - Hunting and gathering societies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-171) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -