Some behave as if their tick of approval were significant and have bestowed it on Sutton and Walshe’s work. Too many people have jumped on the bandwagon already, portraying themselves as the “brave” insightful ones who have done the investigation and long hours of analysis exposing Dark Emu.
Nor am I going to write an article on the back of the good work of those individuals I just mentioned while portraying myself as some expert voice for the people who exposed Dark Emu for its errors. The aforementioned people have expertly done this.
Nor do I intend to persuade readers that the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was sophisticated and highly advanced. In this article, I do not intend to persuade readers that Aboriginal society, before the British invasion, were not farmers. The theory put forth by Bruce Pascoe in his 2014 work Dark Emu claims Indigenous Australians were not just hunter-gatherers but were well-versed in sophisticated methods of food production, aquaculture, and land management.īefore Sutton and Walshe’s critique was published, individuals like Peter O’Brien, Andrew Bolt, and Ian Keen also bravely weighed in, daring to challenge a story that has been so fervently and uncritically embraced. Using 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.ĭark Emu, 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.The “Pascoe fiasco” has well and truly been in overdrive since the release of Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s “ Farmers or Hunter-Gathers? The Dark Emu Debate,” which expertly points out the many errors in the Dark Emu theory. All of these behaviors were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag, which turns out have been a convenient lie that worked to justify dispossession. 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. History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land.
Contradicts the conventional wisdom that native peoples were primitive hunter-gatherers
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