A fascinating inquiry, which leads us to rethink the nature of human capacities, as well as the proudest moments of our own history, and our interactions with and indebtedness to the cultures and forgotten intellectuals of indigenous societies. Challenging and illuminating. -- Noam Chomsky
The Guardian, “The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow review – inequality is not the price of civilisation”
An archaeologist and an anthropologist dismantle received wisdom about the way early societies operated
By David Priestland, October 23, 2021