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Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia & the Birth of Agriculture

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Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia & the Birth of Agriculture

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ISBN: 9781921248016
Title: Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia & the Birth of Agriculture
Author: PASCOE BRUCE


'Dark Emu injects a profound authenticity into the conversation about how we Australians understand our& continent ... [It is] essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Australia once was, or what it might yet be if we heed the lessons of long and sophisticated human occupation.' Judges for 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards


Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial 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 in& Dark Emu comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.



Bruce's comments on his book compared to Gammage's: \" My book is about food production, housing construction and clothing, whereas Gammage was interested in the appearance of the country at contact. [Gammage] doesn't contest hunter gatherer labels either, whereas that is at the centre of my argument.\"

Format: Paperback
Price: $33.00

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Weight 300 g
Dimensions 210 × 135 mm