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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Bottom of the pile
18
/100
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Readers
20/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Stefanos Geroulanos
Publisher:
Liveright
Date:
April 2, 2024
Historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.
What The Reviewers Say
Geroulanos surveys many of the fantasies and self-serving myths that have been used to fill in the dangerously wide-open blank space between the emergence of humans and the invention of writing.
All of this is fascinating—or would be, but for major problems. For one thing, Geroulanos is not a congenial companion.
Original and exciting.
Accompanied by eye-catching illustrations, his study mulls over both "science and speculation".
