Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? by Peter Sutton & Keryn Walshe

Author:Peter Sutton & Keryn Walshe [Sutton, Peter & Walshe, Keryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780522877854
Google: j7UnzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Published: 2021-06-16T00:18:39.071523+00:00

Aboriginal agricultural implements

Pascoe brings together two different types of Australian Aboriginal stone objects and a single bartered object under his category ‘Aboriginal agricultural implements’. It is an eclectic and somewhat sensitive selection of types that covers an exotic (non-Australian) hoe, a subset of picks, and the cylindro-conical and cornute (horn-shaped) stones known as ‘cylcons’. They are united by being ‘large and heavy’ (page 37). He writes:

These implements [‘hoes’] have received very little study since … (1894) … some commentators decided they were items of penis worship: the researchers assumed Aboriginal people too backward to have cultivated the land, so the stones have to have phallic significance ...

It is these implements [‘picks’] that are crucial to our understanding of Aboriginal agricultural history … The few that are labelled are tellingly referred to as Bogan River picks. [pages 36–7]

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