THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING

A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution?from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of the state, political violence, and social inequality?and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.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 tam...[Read more]