About the author
David Wengrow is a British archaeologist and professor of comparative archaeology at University College London. His work examines early cities, inequality, political experimentation, and the assumptions modern societies project backward onto the human past.
David Graeber and David Wengrow draw on archaeology and anthropology to assemble a less linear record. Hunter-gatherers changed political arrangements by season; early farmers abandoned agriculture; large settlements existed without obvious kings; centralized societies later moved in other directions.
Where to start
Start with The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. David Graeber and David Wengrow challenge the familiar story that farming led inevitably to hierarchy, cities, and the state.
