When did we, as a species, start to sing? Dr Brenna Hassett unearths our musical origins.

Bima Satria Putra, David Wengrow, and Stevphen Shukaitis discuss Indigenous anarchism in Indonesia.

Are we seeing an end to the "freedom of the seas" in the Strait of Hormuz?

Are we seeing an end to the "freedom of the seas" in the Strait of Hormuz?

In the recent past, evolutionarily speaking, every other kind of hominin, from the Neanderthals of western Eurasia to the ‘hobbits’ of Flores, became …

Are we seeing an end to the "freedom of the seas" in the Strait of Hormuz?

The Kura-Araxes Culture (3500–2500 BCE) is often depicted as a homogeneous pastoralist horizon, yet its internal economic and mobility strategies remain poorly understood. This study for the first tim...

David will appear at the Festival in Hay-on-Wye from 22–25 May 2026, where he will explore what’s really new about the “new” world order.

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A talk delves into Ukraine's deep past, when massive “megasites” flourished on the Ukrainian steppe, challenging the idea that “civilization” requires kings.

The World Economic Forum in Davos is ending with talk of a rupture in world affairs, a collapse of international law, a...

The School for Advanced Research announces The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow as the 2025 J. I. Staley Prize recipient, recognizing its groundbreaking...

A New History of Humanity

In this episode of The Amargi Mosaic, host Elif Sarican speaks with Professor David Wengrow about how archaeology in Kurdistan has shaped understanding of alternatives to state power. They explore…

David Wengrow (UCL Institute of Archaeology) has been invited to give the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of Utah in March 2026.

The Nehru Centre,London, will host a Book Discussion on “Indian Archaeology after Independence: Amalananda Ghosh and His Legacy” by Himanshu Prabha Ray and Ajay Yadav (Routledge, 2025). The discussion...

David Graeber, a scholar of the radical left, can’t find a job. Maybe American anthropology departments aren’t as liberal as you think.

UCL Anthropology is sad to announce the death of Professor Michael Rowlands on 19 July 2025.

The nexus of radical inequality, social atomization and male victimhood has been exploited before. But why now, on such a scale? To understand the appeal of the far right today we need to examine the...

The nexus of radical inequality, social atomization and male victimhood has been exploited before. But why now, on such a scale? To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the...

Der archaische Männerbund als Ursprung politischer Gemeinschaften und der Freiheit? Bei seiner Rede an den Wiener Festwochen widmet sich der Anthropologe David Wengrow einem obskuren Narrativ, das heute ein Revival erfährt.