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020			_a9781921248016 _qPaperback / softback
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100	1		_aPascoe, Bruce, _d1947- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDark emu : _baboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture / _cBruce Pascoe.
264		1	_aBroome, Western Australia : _bMagabala Books, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a277 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aOriginally published: 2014.
520			_aDark 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.
586			_aWinner - 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.
650		0	_aAboriginal Australians _xHistory.
650		0	_aAboriginal Australians _xAntiquities.
650		0	_aAboriginal Australians _xAgriculture.
650		0	_aLand use, Rural _zAustralia.
650		0	_aHunting and gathering societies _zAustralia.
651		0	_aAustralia _xHistory.
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