Includes chapter on Aboriginal agricultural practices, hunting, use of fire, incompatibility with European forms of agriculture; population changes.

Focusing on the technologies that the farmers and graziers actually used, this book follows the history of each of the major commodities of groups of commoditie

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal

Agriculture in Australia has had a lively history. The first European settlers in 1788 brought agricultural technologies with them from their homelands, influen

Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewardship of the