David Wengrow
@davidwengrow.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Archaeology at UCL | co-author, New York Times bestseller #TheDawnOfEverything | working on a sequel #TheThirdFreedom | media enquiries: [email protected]
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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September 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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.’
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...
Apropos, my letter in this month’s LRB concerning their recent piece.
September 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Apropos, my letter in this month’s LRB concerning their recent piece.
September 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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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August 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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This, from “Science” magazine yesterday, by the excellent B. Arbuckle - human history is actually changing before our eyes.
June 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This, from “Science” magazine yesterday, by the excellent B. Arbuckle - human history is actually changing before our eyes.
Now this looks intriguing.
June 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Now this looks intriguing.
Compare today’s story @theguardian.com and yesterday’s story in #TheDawnOfEverything
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
June 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Compare today’s story @theguardian.com and yesterday’s story in #TheDawnOfEverything
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Korean edition just arrived and is absurdly beautiful. I love the toppled crown floating through the void … leading nowhere. #TheDawnOfEverything
May 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Korean edition just arrived and is absurdly beautiful. I love the toppled crown floating through the void … leading nowhere. #TheDawnOfEverything
For my friend (the 20th Wenjin Book Prize)
April 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
For my friend (the 20th Wenjin Book Prize)
Finally got some of these ..
February 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Finally got some of these ..
I’d like to use my newfound infamy as a scientific opponent of the case for a “Proto-Indo-European Homeland” in the Caucasus to draw attention to an open letter by Prof. Rafi Greenberg, which concerns an impending conference on #archaeology in the Occupied West Bank.
February 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I’d like to use my newfound infamy as a scientific opponent of the case for a “Proto-Indo-European Homeland” in the Caucasus to draw attention to an open letter by Prof. Rafi Greenberg, which concerns an impending conference on #archaeology in the Occupied West Bank.
Very nicely put by @cjfrieman.bsky.social and co-writers. Article is open access (link in the thread below)
January 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Very nicely put by @cjfrieman.bsky.social and co-writers. Article is open access (link in the thread below)
Next week’s tutorial readings for BA archaeology & anthropology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social (I maintain all archaeologists need a solid foundation in the workings of myth, witchcraft, and sortition)
January 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Next week’s tutorial readings for BA archaeology & anthropology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social (I maintain all archaeologists need a solid foundation in the workings of myth, witchcraft, and sortition)
Not to blow my own trumpet but it does feel like maybe we were onto something here ..
January 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Not to blow my own trumpet but it does feel like maybe we were onto something here ..
Delighted that my friend Eyal Weizman will give the next David Graeber Memorial Lecture: “Conditions of Life Calculated .. on the Gaza Genocide.”
Pre-register: shorturl.at/ptZib
Pre-register: shorturl.at/ptZib
January 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Delighted that my friend Eyal Weizman will give the next David Graeber Memorial Lecture: “Conditions of Life Calculated .. on the Gaza Genocide.”
Pre-register: shorturl.at/ptZib
Pre-register: shorturl.at/ptZib
Looks very timely ..
January 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Looks very timely ..
Yet again the book I’m currently most excited about for my new research had to be dug out from the university Stores - cancelled decades ago for lack of interest. Third time this year. Guess it means I’m either totally lost or maybe onto something..
December 22, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Yet again the book I’m currently most excited about for my new research had to be dug out from the university Stores - cancelled decades ago for lack of interest. Third time this year. Guess it means I’m either totally lost or maybe onto something..
Now online from recent event @britishacademy.bsky.social
- my (critical) take on recent efforts to study wealth inequality in the deep past using “econometric” measures of archaeological data.
youtu.be/nfanSzajTXQ?...
- my (critical) take on recent efforts to study wealth inequality in the deep past using “econometric” measures of archaeological data.
youtu.be/nfanSzajTXQ?...
December 16, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Now online from recent event @britishacademy.bsky.social
- my (critical) take on recent efforts to study wealth inequality in the deep past using “econometric” measures of archaeological data.
youtu.be/nfanSzajTXQ?...
- my (critical) take on recent efforts to study wealth inequality in the deep past using “econometric” measures of archaeological data.
youtu.be/nfanSzajTXQ?...
Another gift from the postman this morning: this handsome new volume on ancient Maya rulership from Dumbarton Oaks, inspired by the work of David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins .. my chapter is towards the end.
November 18, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Another gift from the postman this morning: this handsome new volume on ancient Maya rulership from Dumbarton Oaks, inspired by the work of David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins .. my chapter is towards the end.
Last year, I was honoured to spend a day at the Royal Anthropological Institute with an intellectual hero of mine, Orlando Patterson, discussing this important new work of his, which is out today.
November 14, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Last year, I was honoured to spend a day at the Royal Anthropological Institute with an intellectual hero of mine, Orlando Patterson, discussing this important new work of his, which is out today.