The argument of Lost Worlds, my new book, goes something like this. We have a particular story of how humanity went from being hunter-gatherers to city-dwelling subjects of states. The vast bulk of that process took place between about 11000 and 1000 BC, and the story is deeply flawed.

Sounds like a brilliant book! Have you checked out Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Humanity: A New History of Everything?

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I think you single-handedly got me re-interested in prehistory and the Bronze Age. Which is kind of amusing, since I first found Tides of History while I was trying to feed my newfound addiction to early modernity.

I look forward to reading this. But I expect some will buy it expecting a riveting tale about how dinosaurs will rule again.

Please tell me you'll be narrating the audiobook. 😀

Over a long-enough timeline, this story is one of steady upward progress from small mobile bands of foragers to farmers living in villages, then elite-dominated chiefdoms, then kings and states extracting surplus from their subjects. That is an extremely selective reading of what actually happened.

This is very exciting. As end stage capitalism morphs into neofeudalism, we need to know a broader and deeper history of our species and of the ways we have failed and have succeeded at surviving and creating on this planet. Thank you! Can’t wait…