What sort of world could we create if we stopped believing that inequality is the price of progress?

More than a decade ago, archaeologist David Wengrow started exploring this question with his friend the late David Graeber, an anthropologist.

Together they unearthed a new picture of humanity's past and our shared future.

The two Davids found many examples from human history of societies which flourished without kings, bureaucracies, palaces and poorhouses.

They realised that the notion that humans have to surrender equality for modernity is not only untrue; it's boring, because it fails to recognise how politically creative humans can be.

Further information
The Dawn of Everything is published by Penguin
Richard's conversation with David Wengrow was recorded live at the Sydney Writers' Festival

CREDITS:
Carmel Rooney, Executive Producer
Richard Fidler, Presenter
Nicola Harrison, Researcher