Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? - Softcover

Pascoe, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1922142433 ISBN 13: 9781922142436

Publisher: Magabala Books, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

’Unputdownable.’

(Darina Allen Irish Examiner)

'The truth-telling must go on.' (Stephen Fitzpatrick)

About the Author:

Bruce Pascoe is a Bunurong man born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. He is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative of southern Victoria and has been the director of the Australian Studies Project for the Commonwealth Schools Commission. Bruce has had a varied career as a teacher, farmer, fisherman, barman, fencing contractor, lecturer, Aboriginal language researcher, archaeological site worker and editor. Books include the short story collections Night Animals and Nightjar; the novels Fox, Ruby Eyed Coucal, Ribcage, Shark, Earth, and Ocean; historical works Cape Otway: Coast of secrets and Convincing Ground; the childrens' book Foxies in a Firehose and the young adult fiction Fog a Dox, which won the Prime Ministers Literary Award for YA Fiction, 2013.

About this edition

• Publisher: Magabala Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1922142433
• ISBN 13: 9781922142436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 175