This system was at least as complex as gardening or farming.įriday essay: how our new archaeological research investigates Dark Emu's idea of Aboriginal 'agriculture' and villagesĬharacterisation of Aboriginal peoples as hunter-gatherers or farmers/agriculturists is a long running and shifting debate among anthropologists and archaeologists. Rather than organising Aboriginal worlds along a spectrum weighted according to their agricultural development and progress, Sutton and Walshe argue there was a far more complex system that involved modifications to one’s environment and its resources, as well as elaborate spiritual work to keep it all going.
Instead, they prefer the descriptor “hunter-gatherers-plus” in relation to who they refer to as the “Old People”. Sutton and Walshe, meanwhile, reject the label agriculture or “farming”. Pascoe draws on colonial archives and actively and creatively offers a different interpretation to colonial bias to tell the story of Aboriginal peoples’ farming and associated practices.
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