

David Wengrow: everything we know about the human story is wrong
Archaeologist David Wengrow has discovered an entirely new way to think about the history of humanity, from the origins of farming, cities, democracy and slavery to civilisation itself. What sort of world could we create if we stopped believing that inequality is the price of progress? More than a decade ago,…
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