kamgeesaman 's review for:

The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow, David Graeber

3.75

informative reflective slow-paced

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 It took me a long time to get through this book but it was worth it. This is a fascinating exploration of early human history and civilization, questioning our base assumptions about how society began and our journey to the current political structures we’ve created. The fundamental thesis of this book is: nothing was inevitable. 

I picked this book up because I wanted to learn more about early hominids, not just humans, but I stuck with it because the underlying premise was so interesting. Often I think we view early humans as animals, as if they didn’t have the same level of reasoning as us because they didn’t have the same technology. That simply can’t be true. They were just as complex, just as curious. They thought critically about the kind of world they wanted to live in and made deliberate decisions in pursuit of that world.