Pascoe, Bruce,  1947- <br/><br/>
Dark emu :  Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture / 
Bruce Pascoe. 
 - Melbourne :  Scribe,  2018. 
 - 278 p. :   ill. ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Chapter 1. Agriculture -- Chapter 2. Aquaculture -- Chapter 3. Population and housing -- Chapter 4. Storage and preservation -- Chapter 5. Fire -- Chapter 6. The heavens, language and the law -- Chapter 7. Australian agricultural revolution -- Chapter 8. Accepting history and creating the future. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781911344780 : (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB848323  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>018786647  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aboriginal Australians--History.<br/>Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture--History.<br/>Agriculture--History.--Australia<br/>Land use, Rural --Australia<br/>Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>994.0049915