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Dark emu : black seeds agriculture or accident?

Bruce Pascoe (Author)
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonialAboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across thecontinent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behavioursinconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books supportthis premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenientlie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources

eBook, English, 2014
Magabala Books, Broome, W.A., 2014