David Wengrow, is a professor at the Institute of Archeology at University College London (UCL). He has just published with David Graeber, one of the leading thinkers of the Occupy Wall Street movement and professor at the London School of Economics (died in September 2020),
In the beginning was ...
(ed. Les Liens qui liber, 2021).
LE FIGARO. - The great stories of human history tell, generally, that not much happened before the invention of agriculture. In your opinion, during this so-called dormant age, sapiens was more active than we think. In what ?
David WENGROW. -
We have become accustomed to dividing history according to the means of food production, but this reading grid does not allow us to understand what really happened.
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Let us take a category like that of "hunter-gatherers".
It includes both very egalitarian societies, and unequal societies, divided according to different classes (nobles, commoners,
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