In Black Duck, Bruce Pascoe traces a calendar year on Yumburra, the farm his bestseller Dark Emu helped to purchase.
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For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest.
Our research team tracked the impact of Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe’s bestseller, over five years. We measured its value across a range of criteria, from financial to environmental.
A growing number of satellite ‘mega-constellations’ are being deployed. Will a starry night sky soon be a thing of the past?
History isn’t just learning facts. Students learn about the past by researching information and synthesising it to form an evidence-based argument. This skill is useful for a range of careers.
The characterisation of Aboriginal worlds at 1788 is the central debate between Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and Peter Sutton and Kerryn Walshe’s Farmers or Hunter-gatherers.
We have found 140 quarry sites, where rock was excavated to make seed grinding stones, in the Channel Country of Central Australia. It’s part of a major project testing Bruce Pascoe’s hypothesis.
A new book by an eminent anthropologist and archaeologist mounts a rigorous critique of Dark Emu, repudiating notions of ‘primitive’ hunter-gatherers.
An analysis of Australian history narratives in secondary school textbooks shows many still repeat the myth that Aboriginal peoples were nomadic hunter-gatherers.
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in archaeology (UNE) and Charitable Projects Manager (Everick Foundation), University of New England
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Director, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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Astronomer, Australian National University
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General Manager Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
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Associate Professor, History and Curriculum Studies, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer in Cultural Studies in Health
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Traditional Owner, Indigenous Knowledge
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ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in English, Australian National University
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Senior Lecture in Archaeology, The University of Queensland