David Wengrow

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David Wengrow is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, Warburg Institute

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According to Wikipedia, David Wengrow is a British archaeologist and Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He co-authored the international bestseller The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity which was a finalist for the Orwell Prize in 2022. Wengrow has contributed essays on topics such as social inequality and climate change to The Guardian and The New York Times. In 2021 he was ranked No. 10 in ArtReview's Power 100 list of the most influential people in art.

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David Wengrow's Published Works

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Farewell to the ‘childhood of man’: ritual, seasonality, and the origins of inequality (2015) (152)
Prehistories of Commodity Branding (2008) (133)
The Archaeology of Early Egypt. Social Transformations in North-East Africa, 10,000-2650 BC (2006) (109)
The evolution of simplicity: Aesthetic labour and social change in the Neolithic Near East (2001) (93)
An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling (2013) (70)
The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2013) (63)
‘The changing face of clay’: continuity and change in the transition from village to urban life in the Near East (1998) (55)
Cultural convergence in the Neolithic of the Nile Valley: a prehistoric perspective on Egypt's place in Africa (2014) (50)
Myths of the archaic state - Evolution of the earliest cities, states, and civilizations (2005) (48)
Rethinking ‘Cattle Cults’ in Early Egypt: Towards a Prehistoric Perspective on the Narmer Palette (2001) (46)
What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West (2010) (42)
Cognition, materiality and monsters: the cultural transmission of counter-intuitive forms in Bronze Age societies (2011) (35)
'Archival' and 'sacrificial' economies in Bronze Age Eurasia: an interactionist approach to the hoarding of metals. (2011) (24)
TEL BET YERAH: Hub of the Early Bronze Age Levant (2012) (21)
The Intellectual Adventure of Henri Frankfort: A Missing Chapter in the History of Archaeological Thought (1999) (19)
Cosmetic connections? An Egyptian relief carving from Early Bronze Age Tel Bet Yerah (Israel) (2010) (16)
The voyages of Europa: ritual and trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, circa 2300-1850 BC (2010) (15)
On desert origins for the ancient Egyptians (2003) (13)
GURGA CHIYA AND TEPE MARANI: NEW EXCAVATIONS IN THE SHAHRIZOR PLAIN, IRAQI KURDISTAN 1 (2016) (13)
EGYPTIAN TASKMASTERS AND HEAVY BURDENS: HIGHLAND EXPLOITATION AND THE COLLARED‐RIM PITHOS OF THE BRONZE/IRON AGE LEVANT (1996) (13)
Landscapes of knowledge, idioms of power: the African foundations of Egyptian civilization reconsidered (2003) (12)
Mid- to late-Holocene archaeology, environment and climate in the northeast Kurdistan region of Iraq (2018) (12)
“Many Seasons Ago”: Slavery and Its Rejection among Foragers on the Pacific Coast of North America (2018) (12)
Radiocarbon dating and the Naqada relative chronology (2014) (10)
Cities Before the State in Early Eurasia (2016) (9)
Images, human bodies and the ritual construction of memory in Late Predynastic Egypt (2004) (8)
Interpreting animal art in the prehistoric Near East (2003) (8)
The invention of writing in Egypt (2011) (7)
Limits of decipherment: object biographies and the invention of writing (2009) (6)
THE LATER PREHISTORY OF THE SHAHRIZOR PLAIN, KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ: FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS AT GURGA CHIYA AND TEPE MARANI (2020) (4)
Gods and monsters. Image and cognition in Neolithic societies (2011) (4)
The Idea of Prehistory in the Middle East (2006) (4)
The dawn of everything (2022) (4)
Enchantment and sacrifice in early Egypt (2008) (3)
The Origins of Monsters (2013) (3)
Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an ‘International Style’ in the Ancient Near East, 1400–1200 bce, by Marian H. Feldman, 2006. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-24044-4 hardback £38 & US$60; xvii+278 pp., 83 figs., 19 col. pls. (2007) (2)
Limits to a public archaeology? Two new books about Çatalhöyük (2006) (2)
Approaching ancient orientalization via modern Europe (2006) (2)
Forgetting the Ancien Régime: republican values and the study of the ancient Orient (2003) (2)
Archaeology of the City: Urban Planning in Ancient Israel and its Social Implications, by Z. Herzog (2003) (2)
‘Have you read it? (2006) (2)
Exploring connections: a new fieldwork collaboration at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak) (2008) (2)
Fleshpots of Egypt: rethinking temple economy in the ancient Near East (2013) (2)
Violence into order: materiality and sacred power in ancient Iraq (2005) (2)
modellingdating and Bayesian statistical An absolute chronology for early Egypt using (2013) (1)
Civilisation and Human Niche Construction (2017) (1)
Art and Material Culture (2018) (1)
Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an International Style in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE’, by M.H. Feldman, 2006 (2007) (1)
The origins of civic life: a global perspective (2019) (1)
Machiavellian Moments (2003) (1)
Radiocarbon dating of Early Egyptian pot residues (2016) (1)
Kingship, Revolution, and Time: Perspectives on Materiality and Modernity (2005) (1)
Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions, by M. Banks (1995) (1)
'Book of the Week', Review article, ‘Prehistory’, by C. Renfrew; and ‘The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World’, by D.W. Anthony (2008) (0)
The 2019 Theoretical Archaeology Group Meeting at UCL (2020) (0)
Stephan Feuchtwang & Michael Rowlands. 2019. Civilisation recast: theoretical and historical perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; hardback 978-1-10848-434-3 £75. (2020) (0)
Egyptology and cognate disciplines (2017) (0)
Predynastic Art - eScholarship (2009) (0)
A Selection of News from the Institute (2016) (0)
5. Counterintuitive Images and the Mechanical Arts (2013) (0)
4. Urban Creations: The Cultural Ecology of Composite Animals (2013) (0)
P REDYNASTIC A RT تارسلأا لبق ام نف (2010) (0)
Andrew Sherratt remembered (2006) (0)
6. Modes of Image Transfer: Transformative, Integrative, Protective (2013) (0)
Clearing the View of Our Foundations (2005) (0)
On Desert Origins for the Ancient Egyptians: Review article, The Archaeology of Nabta Playa, by F. Wendorf et al.; The Pottery of Nabta Playa, by K. Nelson et al.; and Genesis of the Pharaohs, by T. Wilkinson (2003) (0)
A Concept of Eurasia Comments (2016) (0)
by Design : Luxury Arts and an ‘ International Style ’ in the Ancient (2012) (0)
Metals, Nomads and Culture Contact: The Middle East and North Africa. By Nils Anfinset. Equinox, London and Oakville, 2010, 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-84553-253-6 (Hardback). £ 60.00. (2011) (0)
Clockpunk Anthropology and the Ruins of Modernity Comments (2010) (0)
‘ Cattle Cults ’ in Early Egypt : Towards a Prehistoric Perspective on the (2013) (0)
Avoiding the pestilence of the state: some thoughts on niche construction, heritage, and sacred waterworks (2017) (0)
Investigating Radical Deaths and the Cultures That Practiced Them: New AHRC Funded Research at the Institute of Archaeology (2020) (0)
1 Farewell to the “ Childhood of Man ” : ritual , seasonality , and the origins of inequality 1 (2014) (0)
3. The Hidden Shaman: Fictive Anatomy in Paleolithic and Neolithic Art (2013) (0)
Viewpoint: Archaeology of Strikes and Revolution (2018) (0)
Conclusion. Persistent, but Not Primordial: Emergent Properties of Cognition (2013) (0)
1. Image and Economy in the Ancient World: The Bronze Age of Mikhail Rostovtzeff (2013) (0)
2. Materials for an Epidemiology of Culture (2013) (0)

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