THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution?from the deve lopment of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality?and revealing new possibilities for human e mancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike?either free and equal innocents, or thug gish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by tam ing our ...[Read more]