Is anyone aware of a detailed obituary or intellectual biography of Igor Kopytoff?

I am soooo excited for #tx of my little radio show! First ep tonight, starting with the beautiful voice of my uncle chris hassett. it’s #prehistory it’s #voice it’s #archaeology and just a bit family. What a joy to make ❤️ on bbc radio 3 every night this week at 21:45! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Dawn of Music, A Secret Chord

When did we, as a species, start to sing? Dr Brenna Hassett unearths our musical origins.

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So grateful to our publishers at Bookchef for making this happen: #TheDawnOfEverything #Ukraine #DavidGraeber

I’m very honoured to be giving the CENIEH Distinguished Annual Lecture in Burgos next month. My topic: ‘The Role of Image Systems in Human Evolution and History.’ @cenieh.bsky.social @uclarchaeology.bsky.social Further details: www.cenieh.es/en/actualida...

‘Fire Tribes and Stateless Worlds,’ my dialogue with the brilliant Indonesian anarchist writer Bima Satria Putra is now published in @eflux.bsky.social Grateful to Stevphen Shukaitis for making this possible. www.e-flux.com/journal/164/...

Fire Tribes and Stateless Worlds: A Conversation - Journal #164

Bima Satria Putra, David Wengrow, and Stevphen Shukaitis discuss Indigenous anarchism in Indonesia.

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A timely refocusing on how ‘international, rules-based order’ has often been a mirage in service to belligerence. Love @davidwengrow.bsky.social - enlightening as always. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Iran's new ocean imperium

Are we seeing an end to the "freedom of the seas" in the Strait of Hormuz?

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Our conventional story of the origins of international law is back to front. Here I discuss why this history matters. (paywall now gone - straits still 🚫) www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Iran's new ocean imperium

Are we seeing an end to the "freedom of the seas" in the Strait of Hormuz?

newstatesman.com

Interested in how outdated Eurocentric views continue to shape ideas on our species' spread beyond Africa, and how the dating of many key archaeological and fossil sites is much less certain that sometimes claimed? Sounds like you need to read my recent paper, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Revolution, modernity, and the dispersal of Homo sapiens beyond Africa

In the recent past, evolutionarily speaking, every other kind of hominin, from the Neanderthals of western Eurasia to the ‘hobbits’ of Flores, became …

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David Wengrow@davidwengrow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are going to hear a lot more in months to come about the ‘freedom of the seas’ but the true story of this legal principle is rarely told. My weekend essay for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

We are going to hear a lot more in months to come about the ‘freedom of the seas’ but the true story of this legal principle is rarely told. My weekend essay for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Iran's new ocean imperium

Are we seeing an end to the "freedom of the seas" in the Strait of Hormuz?

newstatesman.com

Delighted to share this new study of seasonality and mobility in the fascinating Kura-Araxes culture (3500-2500 BC) of the Caucasus and surrounding regions, led by Gwendoline Maurer. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Seasonality and mobility: An Integrative framework for reconstructing Kura-Araxes pastoral systems at Maxta I, Nakhchivan

The Kura-Araxes Culture (3500–2500 BCE) is often depicted as a homogeneous pastoralist horizon, yet its internal economic and mobility strategies remain poorly understood. This study for the first tim...

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Prof David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social to speak at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival in Hay-on-Wye from 22–25 May 2026, where he will explore what’s really new about the “new” world order. More info here: bit.ly/4syiFU9 #LocalAndGlobal

David Wengrow to speak at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2026

David will appear at the Festival in Hay-on-Wye from 22–25 May 2026, where he will explore what’s really new about the “new” world order.

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Great discussion with archaeologist David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social on the origins of archaeology & how the European encounter with differently organized societies (Africa, Australasia, the Americas) presented a huge challenge to their own rigid hierarchies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEJ8...

David Wengrow: The History of Human Civilization | Doomscroll

YouTube video by Joshua Citarella

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Egalitarian Cities 3,000 Years Before Greek Democracy A talk delves into #Ukraine's deep past, when massive “megasites” flourished on the #Ukrainian steppe, challenging the idea that “civilization” requires kings: ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/... Support our team: patreon.com/c/ukraineworld

⚡ Ukraine’s 6,000-Year-Old Cities A talk delves into Ukraine's deep past, when massive “megasites” flourished on the Ukrainian steppe, challenging the idea that “civilization” requires kings. Listen: ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/... Support UkraineWorld`s team: patreon.com/c/ukraineworld

My sincere thanks to Volodymyr Yermolenko for this opportunity to speak with him on ‘Thinking in Dark Times.’ @uclarchaeology.bsky.social ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...

Cities without Kings: Humanity's Prehistory on Ukrainian Soil — with David Wengrow

A talk delves into Ukraine's deep past, when massive “megasites” flourished on the Ukrainian steppe, challenging the idea that “civilization” requires kings.

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‘“Nostalgia is not a strategy,” Mark Carney said. This must all sound extremely odd to the Indigenous people of Canada, America, Australia or Greenland, for whom that old order meant only catastrophe.’ @davidwengrow.bsky.social on the mythos of ‘rules-based order’: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

‘Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire and colonisation have known all along: for generations, humanity’s hopes for a better future have been built on a gross distortion of history.’ David Wengrow on ‘rules-based’ order, from the blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

David Wengrow | Against the Grotian Tradition

The World Economic Forum in Davos is ending with talk of a rupture in world affairs, a collapse of international law, a...

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Prof David Wengrow @ucl.ac.uk Institute of #Archaeology has been awarded the prestigious J. I. Staley Prize for #Anthropological Excellence this year by @sarsf.bsky.social School of Advanced Research Read More 📲 bit.ly/4riBQBy @davidwengrow.bsky.social 📚 profiles.ucl.ac.uk/140-david-we... 1/3

Today we announce that The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity has been awarded the 2025 J. I. Staley Prize. Congratulations David Wengrow and the late David Graeber @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @davidwengrow.bsky.social sarweb.org/news-2025-st...

At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏 It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...

At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏 It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...

#Wengrow/ #Graeber on pre-Columbian cultures. I think the Tlaxcalans knew the score–

archeology the science of finding we're all so human #senryu I am finally reading The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber (of blessed memory) and David Wengrow, and loving it so much. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

A New History of Humanity

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Archaeologist David Wengrow joins The Amargi Mosaic to discuss how discoveries in Kurdistan reveal human alternatives to state power, in conversation with Elif Sarican. Watch the full interview: youtu.be/Gojvi9miyec

Prof. David Wengrow | The Amargi Mosaic

In this episode of The Amargi Mosaic, host Elif Sarican speaks with Professor David Wengrow about how archaeology in Kurdistan has shaped understanding of alternatives to state power. They explore…

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I just finished drafting a new introduction to Gordon Childe’s book, and there’s something very cool about being able to say that ..

David Wengrow to give the Tanner Lectures on Human Values for 2026 @utah.edu entitled 'The Elementary Forms of Human Freedom.' More here: 📱 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo... Image: @davidwengrow.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology (Image credit: Tom Jamieson) #LocalAndGlobal

David Wengrow to give the Tanner Lectures on Human Values for 2026

David Wengrow (UCL Institute of Archaeology) has been invited to give the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of Utah in March 2026.

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Very much looking forward to this Book Discussion: ‘Indian Archaeology After Independence’ by Himanshu Prabha Ray + Ajay Yadav, also featuring @willdalrymple.bsky.social and Shailendra Bhandare. Nehru Centre London. www.nehrucentre.org.uk/events/book-...

Book Discussion: Indian Archaeology After Independence - Amalananda - Nehru Centre London

The Nehru Centre,London, will host a Book Discussion on “Indian Archaeology after Independence: Amalananda Ghosh and His Legacy” by Himanshu Prabha Ray and Ajay Yadav (Routledge, 2025). The discussion...

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I am deeply honoured by this invitation to deliver The Tanner Lectures on Human Values next Spring. My topic: ‘The elementary forms of human freedom.’ tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...

Apropos, my letter in this month’s LRB concerning their recent piece.

David Wengrow@davidwengrow.bsky.social · 11mo ago

On the 5th anniversary of his death, David Graeber’s unwilling exile from US academia has a particular salience. This account of what happened in 2005, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, is worth reading in the perspective of 2025. www.chronicle.com/article/a-ra...