Innocent transcription errors or wilful attempts to slant the narrative? Read our review and critique and you decide!
Aboriginal Grain Farmers? - Well Maybe Not
No truly agricultural society can be based on native grain species that grow abundantly in wet years, but will not grow in dry years. Settled, Aboriginal ‘farmer’ societies would not have survived Australia’s ruthless swings from droughts to floods.
Did the Dutch Teach Aborigines How to Cultivate Yams?
Were Dutch survivors of the Batavia wreck responsible for introducing yam agriculture to the Aborigines?
Real Examples of Non-farming Aboriginals
There is abundant, authenticated evidence of the Aboriginal Hunter-Gatherer society. But you may need to put on your ‘Rose-Coloured-Glasses’ to find the “evidence” of Mr Pascoe’s Aboriginal Agriculture!
'Romancing the Stones' - Mr Pascoe's Stone Village Houses
Stone house villages? Really?
“Sophisticated" Aboriginal Houses - really?
“Sophisticated Aboriginal houses” are actually Torres Strait Huts with Melanesian and Polynesian influences