Dark Emu

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Magabala Books
Publisher Place: Broome
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition:

Description: 277 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9781921248016