{"product_id":"dark-emu-aboriginal-australia-and-the-birth-of-agriculture-9781947534087","title":"Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContradicts the conventional wisdom that native peoples were primitive hunter-gatherers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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 vessels; and creating elaborate cemeteries and manipulating the landscape. All of these behaviors were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag, which turns out have been a convenient lie that worked to justify dispossession.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing 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 modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required--for the benefit of all Australians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDark Emu\u003c\/em\u003e, a bestseller in Australia, won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Writer's Prize in the 2016 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePascoe, Bruce:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eBruce Pascoe lives in Australia and has a Bunurong, Tasmanian, and Yuin heritage. \u003cem\u003eDark Emu\u003c\/em\u003e won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Writer's Prize in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBruce is currently working on two films for ABC TV and a novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribe Us","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631339016466,"sku":"9781947534087","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0bdc906d-c4a4-4079-82cb-c905a766f6d9.jpg?v=1732769802","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dark-emu-aboriginal-australia-and-the-birth-of-agriculture-9781947534087","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}