The conventional stage-theory model of human history—small isolated bands, then agriculture leading to population expansion, then cities and civilization—is fundamentally inaccurate because different phases coexisted and interacted rather than replacing one another sequentially.
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David WengrowEvidence Quote
“the process is much more interesting than that and you've got people that what are supposed to be different phases or stages of History actually living cheek by jowl sort of feeding off each other reacting against each other and also consciously planning and designing societies according to different sets of values”
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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream— Novara MediaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:30:32 PM
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