Delighted to share this new study of seasonality and mobility in the fascinating Kura-Araxes culture (3500-2500 BC) of the Caucasus and surrounding regions, led by Gwendoline Maurer. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social
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Prof David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social to speak at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival in Hay-on-Wye from 22–25 May 2026, where he will explore what’s really new about the “new” world order.
More info here: bit.ly/4syiFU9
#LocalAndGlobal
Great discussion with archaeologist David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social on the origins of archaeology & how the European encounter with differently organized societies (Africa, Australasia, the Americas) presented a huge challenge to their own rigid hierarchies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEJ8...
Egalitarian Cities 3,000 Years Before Greek Democracy
A talk delves into #Ukraine's deep past, when massive “megasites” flourished on the #Ukrainian steppe, challenging the idea that “civilization” requires kings: ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...
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⚡ Ukraine’s 6,000-Year-Old Cities
A talk delves into Ukraine's deep past, when massive “megasites” flourished on the Ukrainian steppe, challenging the idea that “civilization” requires kings.
Listen: ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...
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My sincere thanks to Volodymyr Yermolenko for this opportunity to speak with him on ‘Thinking in Dark Times.’ @uclarchaeology.bsky.social
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‘“Nostalgia is not a strategy,” Mark Carney said. This must all sound extremely odd to the Indigenous people of Canada, America, Australia or Greenland, for whom that old order meant only catastrophe.’
@davidwengrow.bsky.social on the mythos of ‘rules-based order’:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
‘Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire and colonisation have known all along: for generations, humanity’s hopes for a better future have been built on a gross distortion of history.’
David Wengrow on ‘rules-based’ order, from the blog
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Photo of Prof David Wengrow in a grey suit sitting in an office with a book case behind him. He is looking away from the camera. Photo credit - jamieson_nyt
Prof David Wengrow @ucl.ac.uk Institute of #Archaeology has been awarded the prestigious J. I. Staley Prize for #Anthropological Excellence this year by @sarsf.bsky.social School of Advanced Research
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Today we announce that The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity has been awarded the 2025 J. I. Staley Prize. Congratulations David Wengrow and the late David Graeber @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @davidwengrow.bsky.social
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At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
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At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
From https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/
#Wengrow/ #Graeber on pre-Columbian cultures. I think the Tlaxcalans knew the score–
archeology
the science of finding
we're all so human
#senryu
I am finally reading The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber (of blessed memory) and David Wengrow, and loving it so much.
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Archaeologist David Wengrow joins The Amargi Mosaic to discuss how discoveries in Kurdistan reveal human alternatives to state power, in conversation with Elif Sarican.
Watch the full interview: youtu.be/Gojvi9miyec
Got it in one.
I just finished drafting a new introduction to Gordon Childe’s book, and there’s something very cool about being able to say that ..
David Wengrow to give the Tanner Lectures on Human Values for 2026 @utah.edu entitled 'The Elementary Forms of Human Freedom.'
More here:
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Image: @davidwengrow.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology (Image credit: Tom Jamieson)
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Very much looking forward to this
Book Discussion: ‘Indian Archaeology After Independence’ by Himanshu Prabha Ray + Ajay Yadav, also featuring @willdalrymple.bsky.social and Shailendra Bhandare. Nehru Centre London.
www.nehrucentre.org.uk/events/book-...
I am deeply honoured by this invitation to deliver The Tanner Lectures on Human Values next Spring. My topic: ‘The elementary forms of human freedom.’
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Apropos, my letter in this month’s LRB concerning their recent piece.
Ukrainian edition on the way ✊🏻
#TheDawnOfEverything
#DavidGraeber
On the 5th anniversary of his death, David Graeber’s unwilling exile from US academia has a particular salience. This account of what happened in 2005, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, is worth reading in the perspective of 2025.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-ra...
Very interesting. Some years ago I tried to trace the early phases of this conjuncture, at least in outline. Good luck with it.
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In the 1950s scholars wrote about the “vitalist” aspects of ancient Egyptian & Mesopotamian cosmology: the non-human world was animate, personified. Then, in the 70s, they traced the origins of extractive, imperial regimes to these same civilisations. What’s fascinating imo is that both can be true.
Hats off to fellow archaeologists who stayed on the other platform to combat misinformation - it’s actually a remarkably unselfish and thankless thing to do .. so thanks.
"The true and fascinating story of Easter Island and its amazing statues" KEN FOLLETT
"Anyone looking for an intelligent, balanced and accessible account of Rapa Nui should read his book"
PROF CHRIS GOSDEN
Out September 11 – Pre-order now
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Many congratulations!
icymi
“neither love nor friendship can exist without freedom, and that none of these terms has any real meaning without truth..”
this piece delves deep & covers a lot of ground and is defs worth a read & discussion
