TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pascoe,Bruce
TI  - Dark emu: black seeds : agriculture or accident? 
SN  - 9781922142436
AV  - GN666 .P37 2014
U1  - 338.10994 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Broome, W.A.
PB  - Magabala Books
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Land use, Rural
KW  - Australia
KW  - Hunting and gathering societies
KW  - fast
KW  - Australian
KW  - Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
KW  - Aboriginal culture
KW  - Land resources
KW  - Natural resource management
KW  - Social customs
KW  - History
N1  - Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Agriculture -- ch. 2 Aquaculture -- ch. 3 Population and Housing -- ch. 4 Storage and Preservation -- ch. 5 Fire -- ch. 6 The Heavens, Language and the Law -- ch. 7 Australian Agricultural Revolution -- ch. 8 Accepting History and Creating the Future
N2  - 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
ER  -