Our conventional understanding of human history is wrong. Our species did not spend 95 percent of its evolution in tiny hunter-gatherer groups. So what were we doing all this time? Agriculture and cities did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination. So where do inequalities really come from? Building on the findings of his best-selling book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity – co-written with the late David Graeber – David Wengrow explains how archeology and anthropology are providing new answers surprising to these major questions, revealing a prehistoric story. a world more varied and unexpected than we know it, and a future more open and free than we imagine.
David Wengrow is Professor of Comparative Archeology at the Institute of Archeology, University College London and has been a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of several books, including What Makes Civilization?. Wengrow conducts archaeological field work in various regions of Africa and the Middle East. recipient of the Antiquity Prize and delivered the Rostovtzeff Lectures (New York University), the Jack Goody Lectures (Max Planck Institute) and the biennial Henry Myers Lecture (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain).
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