All in Academic Rebuttals
The New Dark Emu : “Pascoe puts forward a compelling argument for the understanding that pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians were on a trajectory from their hunter-gatherer existence towards food production and agriculture within the next 3000 years. The evidence shows that the first beginnings of an agricultural way of life were starting in isolated parts of the continent. It is the story of mankind and a story that we will all admire and find fascinating as Australians."
Mr Pascoe favourably cites the work of Professor Frankel, but does Frankel’s work support Pascoe’s Aboriginal Agriculture Theory? We would suggest not!
Bitter Harvest, a book by Peter O’Brien, provides an independent critique of Pascoe’s Dark Emu.
To maintain the faith of the public, Academia needs to hold and maintain high ethical standards.
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it” - Jonathan Swift
The New Guineans and the Torres Strait Islanders developed and continued their horticultural practices, but the Australian Aborigines chose, or were forced, to abandon their early horticultural experiments and instead followed a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
