The Dawn of Everything Part 2
Open any world history book and you\u2019ll read that the Neolithic Revolution was a turning point for humanity, when hunter gatherers gave up roving in small egalitarian groups and settled down to farm. Out of that, civilization was born, with all the benefits and ills connected to it: the rise of cities, the emergence of the state, inequality, and class society. But, according to the late anthropologist David Graeber, that tale is not based on fact. In one of the only interviews that Graeber gave about what was to be titled \u201cThe Dawn of Everything,\u201d he interrogated this chronicle of paradise lost. \nResources:\n\u201cThe Dawn of Everything Part 1: An Interview with David Wengrow\u201d\nDavid Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021\nThe post The Dawn of Everything Part 2 appeared first on KPFA.