Dark emu : aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture /
Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-
Dark emu : aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture / Bruce Pascoe. - 277 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Originally published: 2014.
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.
Winner - Book of the Year in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards ; Winner - Indigenous Writer's Prize in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards ; Shortlisted - History Book Award in the 2014 Queensland Literary Awards ; Shortlisted - 2014 Victorian Premier's Award for Indigenous Writing.
9781921248016 1921248017
Aboriginal Australians--History.
Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities.
Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture.
Land use, Rural--Australia.
Hunting and gathering societies--Australia.
Australia--History.
305.89915
Dark emu : aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture / Bruce Pascoe. - 277 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Originally published: 2014.
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.
Winner - Book of the Year in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards ; Winner - Indigenous Writer's Prize in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards ; Shortlisted - History Book Award in the 2014 Queensland Literary Awards ; Shortlisted - 2014 Victorian Premier's Award for Indigenous Writing.
9781921248016 1921248017
Aboriginal Australians--History.
Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities.
Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture.
Land use, Rural--Australia.
Hunting and gathering societies--Australia.
Australia--History.
305.89915