‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history

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‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history
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Wengrow and his late co-author David Graeber caused a sensation with their revisionist view of humankind’s development. But then came the attacks…

, those authors drew heavily on archaeological and anthropological findings, although none of them are archaeologists or anthropologists. By contrast Graeber, who died two years ago, was thought by many to be one of the leading anthropologists of his generation. And co-author Wengrow is a well-respected archaeologist.

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