Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
Current price:
$26.99
Publication Date: October 1st, 2015
Publisher:
Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation
ISBN:
9781922142436
Pages:
176
Description
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 – behaviors 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.