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Bush Tucker Man
1988 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 3 seasons
Major Les Hiddins of the Australian Army was born in Queensland and was always interested in Aboriginal customs and practices and how those practices helped a people survive in a hostile environment for thousands of years. When he joined the Army he developed this interest into a skill and put it to good use. Learning how to survive in the Australian bush and then to teach others the same skills. He wrote various survival manuals for the Australian Armed forces and added survival notes to the back of maps used by pilots flying over the Australian bush. In this series of programmes Les shares that knowledge with us, teaching us some of his survival skills and his great respect for the Aboriginal people that taught him.
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Next you'll be quoting Quadrant as authorative.
FWiW I've never read or met Pascoe.
The part you've skipped over and not addressed is direct video recording of aboriginal people living traditional lifestyles talking about propagating and spreading plants.
Especially Bush Tucker Man which was a public facing documentary series running alongside the Australian Army recording traditional food practices and sources for the purposes of keeping soldiers alive in the northern territories of Australia.
This directly contradicts your position that aboriginal people didn't know what seeds did.
How you make such a statement about people that spent several tens of thousands of years in a place watching plants and animals and shaping the environment about them suggest you've not thought this through and likely never lived in aboriginal communities.
All known?
That's a broad sweeping statement you'd be hard pressed to prove.
On the flip side you could watch old episodes of, say, Bush Tucker Man and pay attention to the parts in which aboriginal women talk about seeds and putting them back to grow more plants. You might also hit up the archives for old Malcolm Douglas epiosodes.
There are numerous articles such as, https://www.science.org/content/article/indigenous-people-shaped-australias-curious-geography-plants, that talk about seeds and aboriginal travels.
Or you could go direct to the source and talk to people that never lost connection to the land such as the Birriliburu Rangers, the last of the Pintupi Nine, or any number of communities in the Kimberley.
You come across as very ill informed.