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The Dawn of Everything
A radical retelling of human history — evidence that societies have always been far more diverse, experimental, and free than we assumed.
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Professor of comparative archaeology at UCL who co-wrote The Dawn of Everything (2021) with David Graeber. Used decades of new digs to overturn the standard story of human history — that hierarchy was inevitable once we stopped foraging.
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