Machine generated contents note: 1. Agriculture -- 2. Aquaculture -- 3 .Population and Housing -- 4. Storage and Preservation -- 5. Fire -- 6. The Heavens, Language, and the Law -- 7. An Australian Agricultural Revolution -- 8. Accepting History and Creating the Future
Summary:
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
