Dark emu : black seeds : agriculture or accident? / Bruce Pascoe
- Bib ID:
- 6387449
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-, author
- Description:
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- Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2014
- ©2014
- 173 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781922142436 (paperback)
- Summary:
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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.
- Full contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Agriculture; Chapter 2: Aquaculture; Chapter 3: Population and Housing; Chapter 4: Storage and Preservation; Chapter 5: Fire; Chapter 6: The Heavens, Language and the Law; Chapter 7: Australian Agricultural Revolution; Chapter 8. Accepting History and Creating the Future; Picture Credits; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
- Notes:
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- National Library of Australia's N copy signed by the author, 28 November 2018.
- Includes bibliography (p. 160-171) and index.
- Subject:
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- Beveridge, Peter
- Kirby, James
- Purula, Walter Smith, 1893-1990
- Kuller Kullup
- Sturt, Charles, 1795-1869
- McMillan, Angus
- Gebber, Jemmy
- Cobbone, Johnny
- Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture
- Land use, Rural -- Australia
- Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia
- History - Theory and criticism - Sources
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation
- Housing - Shelters
- Buildings - Architecture and design
- Buildings - Construction
- Food - Plants - Yams
- Food - Plants - Seeds / Flour
- Food - Preparation - Leaching
- Food - Preparation - Cooking
- Subsistence and economy - Seasonality
- Fishing - Fish traps
- Technology - Fire
- Habitation - Camps - Hearths, ovens, fireplaces etc
- Water supply - Wells and bores
- Plants - Nardoo
- Plants - Pandanus
- Plants - Grasses
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Burial
- Animals - Marine mammals - Whales
- Ngiyampaa / Ngemba people (D22) (NSW SH55-10)
- Gunditjmara / Gurndidy / Dhaurwurd-Wurrung people (S20) (Vic SJ54-11)
- Yuin people (S67) (NSW SI56-13)
- Wadi Wadi / Wathi Wathi people (D4) (Vic SI54-16)
- Brewarrina (N NSW SH55-06)
- Colac (W Vic SJ54-12)
- Tae Rak / Lake Condah (W Vic SJ54-11)
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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