![]() Leading anthropologist Dr Peter Sutton and archaeologist Dr Keryn Walshe have their own book - Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate - which hit the shelves on Wednesday.Īnd as respected journalist and author Stuart Rintoul revealed in Good Weekend, it promises to make as much of a splash as Pascoe’s celebrated work: ![]() Now, in a new book, two highly respected academics say that there is little evidence for these claims. In 2014, Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu revolutionised interpretations of Indigenous history, arguing that Aboriginal people engaged in agriculture, irrigation and construction prior to the arrival of Europeans. That publishing phenomenon is Bruce Pascoe’s 2014 book, Dark Emu, an award-winning bestseller that challenged theories of Indigenous Australians as hunter gatherers and painted a new picture of supposedly more advanced societies.īut now that theory is being challenged too, as Nine’s Good Weekend magazine put a new assessment at centre stage: ![]() Good Weekend, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 June, 2021 Two eminent academics take aim at a publishing phenomenon ![]() But now to competing histories of Australia before European settlement and this Good Weekend splash that set an emu among the pigeons: ![]()
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