Article: 'Same time poison, same time good tucker': the cycad palm in the South West Gulf of Carpentaria.(Consumption)

The use of cycad fruit as a dietary staple has always caused interest amongst researchers because of its extremely toxic and carcinogenic qualities, and because of the meticulous, labour-intensive methods required to prepare it for eating. (1) Available archaeological and historical knowledge suggests that Indigenous people in Australia have used various species of cycads as a food source for many hundreds of years. (2) Much of the research on cycad use has been done in Northeast Arnhem Land, with some other studies on Groote Eylandt and in northern Queensland. (3) This essay is an attempt to open up the discussion a little further, and to document in some detail the ...

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