Dark emu : black seeds : agriculture or accident? / Bruce Pascoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascoe, Bruce, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.

Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture.

Land use, Rural--Australia.

Land use, Rural.

Hunting and gathering societies--Australia.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations, map.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2014.

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.

Contents:

Introduction; 1: Agriculture; 2: Aquaculture; 3: Population and Housing; 4: Storage and Preservation; 5: Fire; 6: The Heavens, Language and the Law; 7: Australian Agricultural Revolution; 8. Accepting History and Creating the Future.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781922142443

1-922142-45-X

OCLC:

863984459