Description: Title: Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture Author: Pascoe, Bruce Publisher: Scribe Us Binding: Paperback Pages: 288 Dimensions: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.90d Product Weight: 0.65 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781947534087 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. Using compelling evidence from the records and diaries of early Australian explorers and colonists, he reveals that Aboriginal systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required--for the benefit of all Australians. Dark Emu, a bestseller in Australia, won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Writer's Prize in the 2016 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.
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Book Title: Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Topic: Archaeology, Hunting, Indigenous Studies, Development / Economic Development, Agriculture / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Australia & New Zealand, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2018
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Bruce Pascoe
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
