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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity on New York Times Best Seller list

18 November 2021

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity co-authored by David Wengrow (香港六合彩 Institute of Archaeology) has debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Prof David Wengrow, 香港六合彩 Institute of Archaeology (Image credit: Tom Jamieson)

David's聽new volume (co-authored with the late聽David Graeber), is聽published by Penguin.

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Penguin, 2021)

An聽ambitious new world history, from egalitarian early cities in Mexico and Mesopotamia to part-time kings and queens in Ice Age Europe,the book聽brings together the latest scholarship and archaeological evidence to tell a new story about the last 30,000 years, fundamentally transforming our understanding of the human past.聽

The volume overturns assumptions about the origins of inequality, showing how history contains many more hopeful moments than we鈥檝e previously been led to believe and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organising society.

It has聽already been praised in media reviews (see selected links below) as it is 'upending' preconceptions聽about how societies develop.

According to David:

I鈥檓 thrilled at the news 鈥 it demonstrates that our fields of archaeology and anthropology can make a major contribution to debates over the future of our species, and our collective ability to reimagine the kinds of society we wish to live in.鈥澛

顿补惫颈诲听奥别苍驳谤辞飞, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the 香港六合彩 Institute of Archaeology, is the author聽of three books, including聽What Makes Civilization? and is the recipient of a number of awards, including聽the Distinguished Visitor Award for 2019 by the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He聽conducts archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East and is currently leading collaborative聽AHRC-funded research on radical death and early state formation.

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Update: selected media links

  • 听(18/10/21)
  • (No. 1 Bestseller, 03/02/22)
  • 听(19/10/21)
  • (07/12/21)
  • 听(11/21)
  • (09/11/21)
  • 聽(31/10/21, updated 03/11/21)
  • 聽(Opinion Guest Essay 04/11/21)
  • 听(31/10/21)
  • (15/12/21)
  • (25/11/21)
  • (08/12/21)
  • (拢) (15/10/21)
  • (10/12/21)