Image ‘Wrong About (Almost) Everything’ – a review of ‘The Dawn of Everything’ by David Graeber & David Wengrow 'The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity', David Graeber and David…
Image Did Communism Make Us Human? On the anthropology of David Graeber – by Chris Knight A critique of David Graeber’s understanding of communism.
Image Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution: New light on old debates - Richard B. Lee A leading specialist on hunter-gatherers exposes Steven Pinker’s poorly-researched claims that…
Image Gender egalitarianism made us human: A response to David Graeber & David Wengrow's 'How to change the course of human history' - by Camilla Power In an ambitious recent article in Eurozine David Graeber and David Wengrow try to…
Image 'Communism in Living' - What can early human society teach us about the future? by Camilla Power We need to appreciate the significance that understanding primitive communism held…
Image Abundance and scarcity in primitive societies – La Guerre Sociale A 1977 text reviewing recent scholarship on social anthropology and its implications for…
Image Egalitarian social organisation among hunter-gatherers: the case of the Mbendjele Bayaka - Jerome Lewis It would be absurd to try to return to the social relations of our hunter-gatherer…
Image Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture - Chris Knight (complete book) This highly original book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating…
Image Climate, class, and the Neolithic revolution Climate change helped make human civilisation possible. Does it now threaten its existence?
Image Why hunter-gatherers' work is play - Peter Gray Excellent article by Dr Peter Gray, explaining how hunter-gatherer societies lack a conception of "work" as they make no distinction between work…
Image Mutual aid and the foraging mode of thought: Re-reading Kropotkin on the Khoisan - Alan Barnard This paper utilizes Kropotkin's notion of ‘mutual aid’ and examines specifically…
Image Primitive communism and women's role in its emergence How did human evolution give rise to a species whose very survival is based on mutual confidence and…
