Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture

by Bruce Pascoe

Book Overview

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

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947534084
• ISBN13: 9781947534087
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Scribe Us
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.2"