The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

An anthropologist David Graeber and an archaeologist David Wengrow aim to rewrite the story of our shared past, challenging the dominant narrative of society's development as a movement from egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups, through the agricultural revolution and urbanisation to the creation of hierarchical states. According to the authors, this traditional narrative has nothing to do with facts but merely reproduces myths that have become entrenched in historical science. Perhaps humanity is following a completely different path. Based on data from archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines obtained over the past decades, as well as the opinions of indigenous thinkers, Graeber and Wengrow suggest viewing social history that come from outside the Western canon. The authors objectively acknowledge the ambition of their task — it will take years for science to comprehend the new vision and accept it, which makes it even more important to make a conceptual shift now. The Dawn of Everything began as a kind of game, an informal discussion between an anthropologist and an archaeologist about human history and turned into an exciting intellectual journey.

David Graeber, David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity / Translated from English by Konstantin Mitroshenkov. Scientific Editor Grigory Vinokurov. Editor Sergey Steblev. Editor Alexander Basov. — Moscow: Ad Marginem Press, 2025.