Dark Emu

Bruce Pascoe

Dark Emu
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Magabala Books
Country
Australia
Published
1 June 2018
Pages
278
ISBN
9781921248016

Dark Emu

Bruce Pascoe

Winner of the 2016 Indigenous Writer’s Prize in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

Winner of the 2016 Book of the Year in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial 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 in Dark Emu comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.   

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