Just finished The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow - highly recommended if you're into human history. You've probably read some variation

Just finished The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow - highly recommended if you're into human history. You've probably read some variation on this idea: our simple hunter-gatherer ancestors lived an egalitarian life, until we discovered agriculture and started down the path of hierarchy, domination and all the inevitable ills of civilization. This book does an expert job of picking that argument to pieces and presents a tome of empirical evidence to the contrary - the story of our ancestors was far more complex and interesting.