Greg S’s Reviews > The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity > Status Update
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“According to Gimbutas, ‘Old Europe’ came to a catastrophic end in the third millennium bc, when the Balkans were overrun by a migration of cattle-keeping peoples – the so-called ‘ kurgan’ folk – originating on the Pontic steppe, north of the Black Sea.”
— Aug 30, 2026 09:48AM
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“In domestic varieties, these aids to survival are lost. A genetic mutation takes place, switching off the mechanism for spontaneous seed dispersal and turning wheat from a hardy survivor into a hopeless dependant.”
— Aug 30, 2026 12:00PM
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i’m really curious about the Crow Nation that is mentioned by Paul Radin
— Aug 06, 2026 07:39AM
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author critiques euro-centric writings and then goes on to write a euro-centric chapter
— Jul 29, 2026 05:57PM
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Recommended to me by an anthropologist.
author makes up or confuses an Oscar Wilde quote during a joke. Odd
— Jul 29, 2026 05:49PM
author makes up or confuses an Oscar Wilde quote during a joke. Odd