Talk:Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers?
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Thoughts/comments on this page? edit
Let's discuss any changes or revisions that need to be made to this page. I have Sutton and Walshe, so I'll be expanding the "Contents" section at the least. Noteduck (talk) 07:41, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for creating the article, Noteduck. I have given it a once-over for some basic copyediting for style and additional wikilinks, and also expanded slightly for balance. My only other comment at this stage is that I don't think that the "Other academic responses" section belongs in this article - there is a section in the Dark Emu article where this rightfully belongs (and most of it may already be there). I have another long article about this book which I still need to read, so will get back to this at some point. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 11:47, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
- I have recently read Farmers or Hunter Gatherers?, and re-read Dark Emu, and I think this is a very good summary of the key issues written from a NPOV. My only criticism is that Farmers or Hunter Gatherers is a critique of Dark Emu so the attempt to divide the article into a "Contents" section and "Critique of Dark Emu" section doesn't work well. The placement of information in one section or the other sometimes looks arbitrary and I had to read both sections a couple of time to work out whether a key critique of Dark Emu had been adequately covered. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 04:27, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
Critique of Dark Emu edit
Hello all,
I have added three sentences here. Namely: "They argue that planting is a crucial defining element of agriculture and that the evidence that Aboriginal people sowed seeds is rare and ambiguous.[1] They argue that protected breeding and rearing of aquatic animals is a key element of aquaculture and this was absent in Aboriginal societies.[2] They state that the practices which Pascoe characterises as agriculture and aquaculture were the exceptions rather than the rule in Aboriginal societies.[3]
The article as it stood simply stated that Sutton and Walshe rejected Pascoe's theses that pre-contact Aborigines practiced agriculture. Given that S&W spend a great deal of the book in a detailed examination of the evidence for pre-contact agriculture and aquacultue, I think a couple of sentences sumarising the basis for their critique are warranted. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 04:01, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
Should "do not not refute" be clarified/simplified? edit
Should "do not not refute" be clarified/simplified? R. Henrik Nilsson (talk) 12:34, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing that out. I have removed the redundant "not". I have also changed the paragraph order and slightly changed the wording for clarity. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 22:14, 31 May 2023 (UTC)