Dark emu : aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture / Bruce Pascoe.

By:

Pascoe, Bruce, 1947- [author.]

Material type: Text

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781921248016
1921248017

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.89915 23

Awards:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Pathways	FIC PAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		I0000000073544
Books	Pathways	FIC PAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available		I0000000074534

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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.

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