6/4/2023 0 Comments The black emu![]() ![]() Young Dark Emu is a version of his research rewritten for a younger audience and a copy should be in every school, read and discussed. Pascoe published his significant findings in the book, Dark emu (Magabala Books, 2014) and a radio interview with ABC's Fran Kelly can be heard here. ![]() Not always sedentary many would have had two residences, taking into account seasonal crops, sacred sites and their use of fire. And of villages where many families lived. He came across many examples of agriculture - sowing crops, harvesting, then storing food, aquaculture and fish traps, of using fire and constructing wells. Saddled with the usual notion taught in schools and believed by mainstream Australia that Aboriginal people were nomadic hunters and gatherers, Pascoe began to look at diaries, recollections and illustrations by early European settlers and explorers with different eyes. Themes: Aboriginal themes, Aboriginal agriculture, Aboriginal aquacultureĬoming across a reference to Aboriginal agriculture sent Bruce Pascoe into researching a little known area of Australian history. ![]()
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