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David Graeber, David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything (2022, Allen Lane) 4 stars

A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …

A synthesis whole reverberations will be felt for decades

5 stars

Few books have both educated me (about the wonderful recent work of archeologists) and simultaneously made me hopeful for the future. I look forward to a lifetime of seeing the impact of this synthesis unfold. To the scholars profiled here, especially the Indigenous scholars who brought us gold about Kandiaronk the Wendat orator, a profound thank you.