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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
5 October 2021
David Wengrow (香港六合彩 Institute of Archaeology) will take part in two special events to mark the publication of his new volume The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
David's听new volume (co-authored with the late听David Graeber), is听published by Penguin. From egalitarian early cities in Mexico and Mesopotamia to part-time kings and queens in Ice Age Europe, this ambitious new world history 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.听
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.听
In听two special events being held to mark its publication this month, David will discuss how the book came about.听
At the first event, hosted online by LSE's听Department of Anthropology and International Inequalities Institute on Wednesday 13 October (6-7.30pm), David听will be in conversation with Alpa Shah,听Professor of Anthropology at LSE.听This online public听event forms part of听LSE鈥檚 Shaping the Post-COVID World initiative, a series imagining what the world could look like after the crisis, and how we get there.听The event is free and open to all but pre-registration is required.
At the second event, being held at the British Library on Tuesday 19 October (7.30-8.45pm),听David will talk听to Emma Dabiri, as well as special guests including Ahdaf Soueif, about the ideas behind the book. This event will take听place in the British Library Theatre and will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform.
David听Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the 香港六合彩 Institute of Archaeology, is the author听of three books, including听What Makes Civilization? and is the recipient of a number of awards, including听the Distinguished Visitor Award for 2019 by the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He听conducts archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East and is currently leading collaborative听AHRC-funded research on radical death and early state formation.
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