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David Graeber, David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything (Hardcover, 2021, Signal) 4 stars

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal …

Reading chapter 1 rn. I love the takedown of Francis Fukuyama, Jared Diamond, and Steven Pinker. Pinker especially has been a long time coming

There's a really cool bit where they talk about Pinker's cherrypicking of the archeological remains of Ötzi (who was found with an arrow wedged in his side) and using that to represent how violent "the ancients" were. They contrast this with many cases, including Romito 2, of people with disabilities who were well-cared for into adulthood and given fancy burials