Dark emu
Subtitle: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
By: Bruce Pascoe
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781947534087
Subjects: Rural Land use; Social life and customs; Hunting and gathering societies; Agriculture; Antiquities; Aboriginal Australians
Description: 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. --back cover
Notes: Originally published: Australia : Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.