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Drawing on anthropology and archaeology, it traces how culture, private property, cities, social housing, sovereignty, and political life emerged through diverse, often non-linear developments. The book also examines indigenous critiques, the avoidance or transformation of agriculture, and the complex pathways by which freedom and unfreedom took shape over time.","BY THE SAME AUTHORS  \nDavid Graeber:  \nToward an Anthropological Theory of Value:  \nThe False Coin of Our Own Dreams Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar Direct Action: An Ethnography Debt: The First 5,000 Years The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement  \nThe Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of  \nBureaucracy  \nBullshit Jobs: A Theory  \nDavid Wengrow:  \nThe Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East  \nAfrica, 10,000 to 2650 BC  \nWhat Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West  \nThe Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of  \nMechanical Reproduction  \nCopyright © 2021 by David Graeber and David Wengrow Signal and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House Canada Limited.  \nAll rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher—or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency—is an infringement of the copyright law.  \nPublished simultaneously in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, a division of Penguin Random House UK, and in the United States of America by Farrar,  \nStraus and Giroux, New York.  \nLibrary and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data is available upon request.  \nISBN 9780771049828  \nEbook ISBN 9780771049835  \nCover design by Thomas Colligan  \nTypeset by Jouve (UK), Milton Keynes  \nPublished by Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House Company  \n[www.penguinrandomhouse.ca](www.penguinrandomhouse.ca)  \na_prh_5.8.0_c0_r0  \nContents  \nCover  \nBy the Same Authors  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nList of Maps and Figures  \nForeword and Dedication  \nAcknowledgements  \n1 Farewell to Humanity’s Childhood  \nOr, why this is not a book about the origins of inequality  \n2 Wicked Liberty  \nThe indigenous critique and the myth of progress  \n3 Unfreezing the Ice Age  \nIn and out of chains: the protean possibilities of human politics  \n4 Free People, the Origin of Cultures, and the Advent of Private Property  \n(Not necessarily in that order)  \n5 Many Seasons Ago  \nWhy Canadian foragers kept slaves and their Californian neighbours didn’t; or, the problem with ‘modes of production’  \n6 Gardens of Adonis  \nThe revolution that never happened: how Neolithic peoples avoided agriculture  \n7 The Ecology of Freedom  \nHow farming first hopped, stumbled and bluffed its way around the world  \n8 Imaginary Cities  \nEurasia’s first urbanites – in Mesopotamia, the Indus valley, Ukraine and China – and how they built cities without kings  \n9 Hiding in Plain Sight  \nThe indigenous origins of social housing and democracy in the Americas  \n10 Why the State Has No Origin  \nThe humble beginnings of sovereignty, bureaucracy and politics  \n11 Full Circle  \nOn the historical foundations ofthe indigenous critique  \n12 Conclusion  \nThe dawn of everything  \nNotes  \nBibliography  \nList ofMaps and Figures  \n1 North America as defined by early-twentieth-century ethnologists (inset: the ethno-linguistic ‘shatter zone’ of Northern California)  \n(After C. D. Wissler (1913),‘The North American Indians of the Plains’, Popular Science Monthly 82; A. L. Kroeber (1925), Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.)  \n2 The Fertile Crescent of the Middle East – Neolithic farmers in a world of Mesolithic hunter-foragers, 8500–8000 BC  \n(Adapted from an original map by A. G. Sherratt, courtesy S. Sherratt.)  \n3 Independent centres of plant and animal domestication (Adapted from an original map, courtesy D. 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