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Dark Emu

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Black seeds agriculture or accident?

by Bruce Pascoe
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/03/2014
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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.

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ISBN:
9781922142436
9781922142436
Category:
Australasian & Pacific history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-03-2014
Publisher:
Magabala Books
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
176
Dimensions (mm):
230x152x10mm
Weight:
0.3kg
Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe is an Australian Indigenous writer. He has worked as a teacher, farmer, a fisherman and an Aboriginal language researcher.

His books include Fog a Dox, a book for young adults that won the Prime Minister's Literary Awards in 2013, Convincing Ground about the Convincing Ground massacre, and Dark Emu, a book that challenges the claim that pre-colonial Australian Aboriginal peoples were hunter-gatherers.

In 2018, Bruce Pascoe was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.

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Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu opens an untold perspective on Aboriginal agriculture and aquaculture using the journals of early European explorers and settlers. He reveals their complex understanding of the landscape and climate to produce large scale crops of grains, build towns that supported very large populations. Sophisticated fish traps and water storage, yam production, harvested grains stoops stretching for miles all described by preeminent explorers he uses as evidence of rich cultures. Informative, illuminating, factually based rewriting of history that has been forgotten.... every Australian should read it.

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Black Emu is a must read for every person to have the privilege of living on this continent !!

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Totally changed my attitude to Aboriginal settlement and to the way in which the truth was hidden in plain site. The author went back to what the early explorers had actually seen and recorded about the scope and breadth of aborigal agriculture, hunting, permanent settlements. Information given to the reading public was censored and altered so that the invaders could believe they were liberating the land from primitive hunter gatherers. And in return they created deserts, erosion and floods.

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