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£13 £13The launch of a major new work on the origins of human society, and all that has followed.
Recent advances in science have allowed us to discover more about early human societies than ever before. From egalitarian early cities in Mexico and Mesopotamia to part-time kings and queens in Ice Age Europe, this ambitious new world history brings together the latest scholarship and archaeological evidence to tell a new story about the last 30,000 years.
An intellectual collaboration between the anthropologist David Graeber and the archaeologist David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything challenges our assumptions about the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy and slavery and, in doing this, overturns everything we thought we knew about human behaviour. It also offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom and new ways of organising society.
At this event, David Wengrow talks to Emma Dabiri, as well as special guests, Ayça Çubukçu and Ahdaf Soueif, about the ideas behind the book.
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2021-10-19 2021-10-19 Europe/London The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity The launch of a major new work on the origins of human society, and all that has followed. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2021/10/19/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity-278616 British Library,96 Euston Road, London,London,Location
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