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Most popular accounts of human prehistory suggest civilization emerged linearly—humans starting as nomadic hunter-gatherers and later moving on to farming and permanent settlements leading to villages, towns and then cities. The Dawn of Everything challenges this narrative.Summary
This article by Vivek V. Venkataraman, writing for The Conversation, reviews The Dawn of Everything'
- Anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow argue that human societies during the Palaeolithic were quite diverse rather than all being nomadic hunter-gatherers.
- The writers also argue that humans have shown remarkable flexibility in dealing with different and varying climates and environments.
References
References from the Web:
- JAN 2020 How the extinction of ice age mammals may have forced us to invent civilisation—The Conversation
- SEP 2022 How rituals created human society—Big Think