Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate: By Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2021, Pp. 264, A$34.99 paper.

Sutton and Walshe posit that the attempt by Pascoe to squeeze Aboriginal subsistence systems 'into a European model of economic life ... is I Dark Emu i "s most fundamental flaw" (14). Although my archaeological research at Moyjil casts doubt on its classification as an archaeological site (as pointed out by Sutton and Walshe), it is a little unfair to criticise Pascoe on this point given that my results were published in 2018, the same year that the second edition of I Dark Emu i was released. Sutton and Walshe suggest that Pascoe presents something of a straw person in I Dark Emu i with his suggestion that most people see traditional Aboriginal people as "mere hunter-gatherers". [Extracted from the article]