3 ms·
Next you bring up some Bruce Pascoe stories about fields of grain and permanent dwellings. Regarding the black bean trees, if this was true, early European exp
by jojobas 3y ago
Next you bring up some Bruce Pascoe stories about fields of grain and permanent dwellings.
Regarding the black bean trees, if this was true, early European explorers would have seen vast orchards of said trees, along with many food-producing ones. What they saw instead was complete refusal to help farm wheat that Aboriginals quickly learned to appreciate, even in the face of famine.
There's no shame in being a hunter gatherer who hasn't yet discovered a lot about nature. We've all been there.
- defrost 3y agoNext you'll be quoting Quadrant as authorative. FWiW I've never read or met Pascoe. The part you've skipped over and not addressed is direct video recording of aboriginal people living traditional lifestyles talking about propagating and spreading plants. Especially Bush Tucker Man which was a public facing documentary series running alongside the Australian Army recording traditional food practices and sources for the purposes of keeping soldiers alive in the northern territories of Australia. This directly contradicts your position that aboriginal people didn't know what seeds did. How you make such a statement about people that spent several tens of thousands of years in a place watching plants and animals and shaping the environment about them suggest you've not thought this through and likely never lived in aboriginal communities.