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Dark Emu: Black seeds agriculture or accident?
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Dark Emu: Black seeds agriculture or accident?
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Bruce Pascoe
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:176 | Dimensions(mm): Height 230,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Australia, New Zealand & Pacific history Economic history |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781922142436
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Classifications | Dewey:599.989915 |
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Edition |
None ed.
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Illustrations |
illustrations
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Magabala Books
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Imprint |
Magabala Books
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Publication Date |
3 March 2014 |
Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
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.
Author Biography
Bruce Pascoe is a Bunurong man born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. He is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative of southern Victoria and has been the director of the Australian Studies Project for the Commonwealth Schools Commission. Bruce has had a varied career as a teacher, farmer, fisherman, barman, fencing contractor, lecturer, Aboriginal language researcher, archaeological site worker and editor. Books include the short story collections Night Animals and Nightjar; the novels Fox, Ruby Eyed Coucal, Ribcage, Shark, Earth, and Ocean; historical works Cape Otway: Coast of secrets and Convincing Ground; the childrens' book Foxies in a Firehose and the young adult fiction Fog a Dox, which won the Prime Ministers Literary Award for YA Fiction, 2013.
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