I read your book before there were any reviews, because it wasn't even published yet. And i was amazed at these accusations that this was a political, mosinlitical statement of ye anarchy ry. It's got a very thorough bibliography. It's well referenced. I don't really know how to respond to it, except with er, disappointment, because it feels rather like they haven't read the book in good faith. Yes. Well, maybe you would incorporate her work, and maybe even the examples that rian eisler provides in the talis and the blade. That's right. At's right. Im, i'm slightly conscious that i'm it's time
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike — either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.
In this conversation, based on the book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, Shermer speaks with professor of comparative archaeology, David Wengrow, about his pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology that fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society.