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Other histories of democracy: comparative reflections on Ancient Greece, Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica
18 January 2022
David Wengrow (香港六合彩 Institute of Archaeology) has been invited to give one of the British School at Athens' Annual Open Lectures for 2022 on 8 February.
David's BSA Lecture, which will take place in-person at the British Academy in London on 8 February, is entitled 'Other histories of democracy: comparative reflections on Ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica'.听
The event is free to attend. It聽will also be live streamed for those unable to attend in-person. Please RSVP to Kate Smith at bsa@britac.ac.uk if you wish to attend in-person. Details on how to register to attend virtually will be made available soon聽on the聽.听
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The聽Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
This聽volume, co-authored with the late David Graeber and published in October聽2021 by Penguin, outlines an ambitious new world history, from egalitarian early cities in Mexico and Mesopotamia to part-time kings and queens in Ice Age Europe, bringing聽together the latest scholarship and archaeological evidence to tell a new story about the last 30,000 years which聽fundamentally transforms聽our understanding of the human past.