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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

There's a story that people often believe to be true about how modern society came to be,

and it's a story that has implications for where we may be heading. The story goes like so. Once

upon a time, humans lived in hunter-gatherer societies. Thanks to their

mode of production and small scale, these communities were non-hierarchical and egalitarian,

like the hunter-gatherer societies that persisted into the 20th century until today. Agriculture

then changed everything, propelling the rise of property, hierarchy, and domination.

The emergence of cities inevitably facilitated the emergence of a centralized, authoritarian, and bureaucratic state.

That story, however, is a profoundly misleading myth, according to our guest today, archaeologist David Wengro. Wengro has a new book

out, co-authored with the late, great anarchist anthropologist David Graber, The Dawn of Everything,

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