The Descent of Everything by the Davids

David Weinberger argues that the standard model of pre history isn't supported at all by modern archaeological and anthropological evidence. In its place, they offer a complexified account wherein prehistorical humans lived in a panoply of different political arrangements from extreme galitarianism to chattel slavery. The authors take to imply that radical progressivism or post capitalism might be successful in our modern world. But there is a problem with the book for their own version of pre history is corrupted by politics, he says.