David Wengrow: The History of Human Civilization | Doomscroll
0:00 Atlantis (it’s real)
0:49 Pyramids & the new race
5:27 Indo-europeans vs aryans
15:07 Indigenous enlightenment
36:44 Rousseau & inequality
52:57 History vs teleology
1:00:38 Stone Henge vs farming
1:12:53 Poverty Point
1:18:59 Capitalism vs empire
1:35:01 International law vs might
1:49:59 Third freedom & David Graeber
Bis vor 2 bis 3 tausend Jahren v.u.Z. waren Menschen in #Europa hauptsächlich schwarz.
Warum das eine besondere Meldung ist, weiß ich auch nicht :P
Die Schamanin von Bad Dürrenberg.
#Eisenzeit #dawnofeverything #Rassismus #Molekularbiologie #Paläontologie
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-schwarzen-europaeer-ein-cold-case-aus-der-steinzeit-100.html
A little something for any #archeology enthusiasts out there: a chapter on the paradox of pre-Colombian agriculture in Amazonia, an important outlier in human ecological history, much as discussed in Graeber & Wengrow's #DawnOfEverything
Study of over 1,000 sites suggests inequality emerged long after agriculture
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-04-15/study-of-over-1000-sites-suggests-inequality-emerged-long-after-agriculture.html
> “Since Rousseau, it has been assumed that as agriculture developed, so did private property ownership and, as a result, increased inequality. We show that this isn’t the case, and that, instead, people remained virtually equal for more than a millennium after agriculture became widespread.”
#DawnOfEverything #anarchism
One of the amazing things I learned when I read Dawn of Everything was that something like Intellectual Property does not require "capitalism" to exist. It can exist even amongst people without money of markets; in hunter gathers that don't have been personal propriety over objects.
... qualifications to enter bureaucracies are typically based on some form of knowledge that has virtually nothing to do with actual administration.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 11.
Each day the adult men of a town would gather to spend much of the day arguing about politics, in a spirit of rational debate, in conversations punctuated by the smoking of tobacco and drinking of caffeinated beverages.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 11.
Living in unbounded, eternal, largely imaginary groups is effectively what humans had been doing all along.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.
Humans tend to live simultaneously with the 150-odd people they know personally, and inside imaginary structures shared by perhaps millions or even billions of other humans. Sometimes, as in the case of modern nations, these are imagined as being based on kin ties; sometimes they are not.
In this, at least, modern fora... MESSAGE CLIPPED
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.
FULL TEXT: 8/8 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1333#p1333
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