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What if the major narratives we've learned about the foundation of civilization were

all wrong?

Archaeological historian David Wendro challenges the stories we've learned about the invention

of agriculture and the formation of wage labor and class systems.

In his talk from Ted 2022, he explains how rethinking world history, based on the evidence

that he's dug up can radically change our perspectives about modern life.

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In the summer of 2014, I was in Iraqi Kurdistan with a small team of archaeologists finishing

a season of field excavations near the border town of Halabja.

Our project was looking into something which has puzzled and intrigued me ever since I

began studying archaeology.

We're taught to believe that thousands of years ago when our ancestors first invented

agriculture in that part of the world, that it set in motion a chain of consequences

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