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Dark emu : black seeds : agriculture or accident?

Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-2014
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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.
Main title:
Dark emu : black seeds : agriculture or accident? / Bruce Pascoe.
Author:
Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-, author
Work:
Dark emu : black seeds : agriculture or accident?
Imprint:
Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2014.©2014.
Collation:
175 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliography (pages 160-171) and index.
ISBN:
9781922142436 (paperback)9781922142436
Dewey class:
338.7630994305.89915338.763
Language:
English
Subject:
Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- Agriculture -- HistoryLand use, Rural -- Australia -- HistoryHunting and gathering societies -- Australia -- HistoryFirst Nations Collections
BRN:
217502
Bookmark link:
https://librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=217502
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