David Wengrow
Archaeologist and university professor
David Wengrow is a British archaeologist who holds a professorship at University College London. He co-wrote The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
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British Born 1972 in the United Kingdom
About David Wengrow
Born in 1972, David Wengrow holds a chair in Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, part of University College London (UCL). He has also been a visiting professor at New York University. His fieldwork has taken place in Africa and the Middle East. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, which he co-authored, reached the New York Times bestseller list. It received the J.I. Staley Prize, given for outstanding anthropology scholarship, and the 20th Wenjin Book Prize. It was also an Orwell Prize finalist in 2022. Wengrow has contributed essays to The Guardian and The New York Times, covering subjects such as social inequality and climate change. In 2021, ArtReview placed him tenth in its Power 100 list of influential figures in the art world.