Overview
In 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. --back cover.
- | Author: Bruce Pascoe
- | Publisher: Scribe US
- | Publication Date: May 15, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1947534084
- | ISBN-13: 9781947534087
