Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

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History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is improper.

In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people around the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, after which preserving the surplus and storing it in houses, sheds, or protected vessels; and creating elaborate cemeteries and manipulating the landscape. All of these behaviors were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag, which seems have been a convenient lie that worked to justify dispossession.

Using compelling evidence from the records and diaries of early Australian explorers and colonists, he reveals that Aboriginal systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in brand new retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new have a look at Australia’s past is required ― for the good thing about all Australians.

Dark Emu, a bestseller in Australia, won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Creator’s Prize within the 2016 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards.

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