Sydney Writers Festival: Livestream and Local - David Wengrow

What kind of world could we create if we stopped believing inequality is the price of prgress?

Archaelogy professor David Wengrow's groundbreaking book, The Dawn of Everything: A New Hisotry of Humanity, co-authored with the late David Graeber, overturns the theories of Yuval Hoah Harai (Sapiens), Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel), and Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now). Challening dominant narratives that the agricultural revolution meant abandoning an egalitarian Eden, the book unearths advanced early civilisations there weren't governed by kings, presidents or authoritarian rule.

Transform your understanding of human evolution with David, in conversation with ABC RN's Richard Fidler, and learn how rewriting history may provide political inspiration for today.

About the author:

David Wengrow (pictured)

David Wengrow is an archaeologist and co-author, with David Graeber, of the New York Times and international bestseller The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.

Hosted by Richard Fidler

Richard Fidler is the author of several books that blend history with travel memoir and mythology. His most recent book, The Book of Roads & Kingdoms, is a compendium of stories from travellers who journeyed out from medieval Baghdad to the furthest reaches of the known world. Richard also presents Conversations on ABC Radio, an in-depth interview program, which attracts a large listening audience around the nation and is the most popular podcast in Australia.