60 mins watch time
Culture, History
We all know how the story of humankind begins. Our remote ancestors were primitive and childlike, living in egalitarian hunter-gatherer bands. Then came farming and property, priests and kings, wealth and its unavoidable consequence: inequality. But what if everything we thought we knew about the origins of human civilisation is a myth? David Wengrow presents a new history of humanity with startling implications for how we live now.