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  • Shanti the Grass-eating Lion

    de Paul Sinclair ...
    Legend has it that in a remote part of rural India, there lives a grass-eating lion that can talk. The gentle lion apparently acquired this strange ability through a miracle. The local villagers, who were very poor, had adopted the lion as a cub and could only afford to feed him fruit, vegetables, rice, grass and milk. As he matured into a fully grown lion, however, they were faced with the heart ... Leer más

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  • The Archaeology of Africa

    Food, Metals and Towns

    Series series One World Archaeology
    Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an 2xtraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to confound preconceptions about this ... Leer más

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  • Murray

    A River And Its People

    de Paul Sinclair ...
    The Murray River is in crisis, and faces an uncertain future. In this evocative book, Paul Sinclair explores the reasons why the river has become degraded, and what these changes have meant to Australians.This in-depth study of the Murray River examines the changing cultural meanings of the river: the practical forgetfulness which has eroded the Aboriginal presence; the triumphant narratives in ... Leer más

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    How Aborigines made Australia

    de Bill Gammage ...
    Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has ... Leer más

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  • Prehistory

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Chris Gosden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides a sense of scale, throwing recent ways of life into perspective. Humans and their ancestors ... Leer más

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  • Deep Time Dreaming

    Uncovering Ancient Australia

    With a historian's inquiring mind, Billy Griffiths excavates two absorbing twentieth century histories: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity and the uncovering of traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archeologists.Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. In this original, important book, Griffiths investigates a twin revolution- the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in ... Leer más

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  • First Migrants

    Ancient Migration in Global Perspective

    The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence, Peter Bellwood traces the journeys of the earliest hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist migrants as critical elements in the evolution of human lifeways.The first volume to chart global human migration and ... Leer más

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  • Dark Emu

    Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

    de Bruce Pascoe ...
    History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it ... Leer más

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  • When the Sahara Was Green

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    The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles ... Leer más

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  • The First Scientists

    Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia's First Peoples

    de Corey Tutt ...
    WINNER OF THE 2023 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS ‘PATRICIA WRIGHTSON PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE’SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS ‘INDIGENOUS WRITERS' PRIZE’WINNER OF THE 2022 ABIA ‘BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN’SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 CBCA 'EVE POWNALL' AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS 'CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD'<strong... ... Leer más

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  • The Five-Million-Year Odyssey

    The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture

    The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens. Along the way, humans became incredibly diverse in appearance, language, and culture. How did all of this happen? In ... Leer más

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