Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? by Bruce Pascoe
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1922142433 | 176 pages | EPUB | 3,6 MB
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1922142433 | 176 pages | EPUB | 3,6 MB
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.