Wengrow is collaborating with forensic architecture (based at Goldsmiths College) to create an installation about ancient Ukrainian cities (dating back 6,000 years) that present no evidence of political or economic centralization, using architectural modeling to immerse viewers in debates about what constitutes a city.
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“it's going to focus on these incredible archaeological sites in Ukraine in Ukraine you have cities going back as early as the earliest ones that we know of in Mesopotamia...you have these huge cities that present no evidence of centralization not in political or economic terms and there is a big debate about whether they should or should not be referred to as cities or rather as something else like overgrown Villages or Mega sites”
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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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