Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture

Bruce Pascoe

288 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction historical history challenging informative medium-paced

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Contradicts the conventional wisdom that native peoples were primitive hunter-gatherers History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this semin...

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