Explorations: Animal Farm: Long Term History: Australia: Why some societies did not develop agriculture

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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Standing in a forest in Australia, Alan Macfarlane explains how the argument that Australia did not move from hunting to tribal society because of an absence of suitable plants and animals is undermined by the close links to New Guinea.
 
Created: 2018-03-12 09:05
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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