Dark emu : Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
Bruce Pascoe (Author)
In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it in houses, sheds, or secure vessels; and creating elaborate cemeteries and manipulating the landscape. All of these behaviors were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag, which turns out have been a convenient lie that worked to justify dispossession. --back cover
Print Book, English, 2018
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Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2018
Nonfiction
278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781947534087, 1947534084
1037018065
Agriculture
Aquaculture
Population and housing
Storage and preservation
Fire
The heavens, language, and the law
An Australian agricultural revolution
Accepting history and creating the future