Antecedents
Our thorough scan has found these documentations, in various forms, of the formation of thoughts, discussions, and ideas placed into the world and tested in preparation.
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Ancient History Shows How We Can Create a More Equal World
Adapted essay from The Dawn of Everything.
Image: Daniel Forero
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Forget ‘Liberté’ – 17th-Century Indigenous Americans Knew a Lot More About Freedom Than Their French Colonisers
Excerpt from “The Dawn of Everything,” chapter 2
Image: Kalpesh Lathigra
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A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments
The Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra performs at Palmyra in 2016. Photo courtesy Wikimedia
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Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past
Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our own.
Image: The skull of Homo naledi, as discovered in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. Photograph: Xinhua/Alamy -
The Dawn of Everything | LSE Online Event
David Wengrow was in conversation with Alpa Shah about his new book co-authored with the late David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
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Palaeolithic Politics and Why It Still Matters
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Slavery and Its Rejection Among Foragers on the Pacific Coast of North America: A Case of Schismogenesis?
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How to change the course of human history
For centuries, we have been telling ourselves a simple story about the origins of social inequality…
Image: Banksy (title unknown). Source: Flickr
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Myth of the Stupid Savage
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Rethinking cities, from the ground up
New work in anthropology, archaeology and psychology shows just how similar we are to ancient hunter-gatherers, and what this means for a more radical understanding of 21st century cities.
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Hiding in Plain Sight
We are taught to pride ourselves on living in a democracy. At the same time, in a thousand subtle ways, we are taught that true democracy is probably impossible…
Image: On to Liberty (detail), by Theodor Kaufmann, 1867. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Erving and Joyce Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1982.