| Physical description |
1 online resource (177 pages) |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Notes |
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| Local Note |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia.
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Land use, Rural -- Australia.
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Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781922142443 (electronic book) |
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9781922142436 |
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