• Dark Emu the dance show: a chance to 'look at Australia with fresh eyes'

    Bruce Pascoe and Stephen Page tell how a joking remark led to Bangarra’s latest productionFifteen thousand years before the Egyptians, Aboriginal Australians were grinding grain – making them very possibly the world’s first bakers.Their aptitude with a grindstone (some have been found here that date back 36,000 years) is highlighted in Bruce Pascoe’s seminal 2014 book Dark Emu: Black Seeds – Agriculture or Accident? Indigenous Australians, Pascoe argues, were not hu

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