Evidence for Indigenous Australian Agriculture
An Aboriginal village near the NSW/SA border in the 1840s.
By Rupert Gerritsen
The assumption that indigenous Australians did not develop agriculture is highly contestable, with a body of evidence revealing that they developed food production systems and in some cases lived in large villages.
Rupert Gerritsen is a Petherick Reader at the National Library of Australia, and author of Australia and the Origins of Agriculture.
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