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Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture

Pascoe, Bruce

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAustralia & Oceania

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1947534084
ISBN13: 9781947534087
Publisher: Scribe Us
Published: May 15 2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Contradicts the conventional wisdom that native peoples were primitive hunter-gatherers

History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.

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.

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