Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple
- Written by Michael Westaway, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
ShutterstockFor almost ten years, debate has raged over the book Dark Emu by Aboriginal historian Bruce Pascoe. In it, Pascoe argues many pre-colonial Aboriginal groups were farmers, pointing to examples like eel aquaculture in Victoria, and grain planting and threshing of native millet in the arid centre.
The debate has drawn in everyone from...
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