The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - by David Graeber & David Wengrow

"The Dawn of Everything" challenges traditional narratives about the history of human civilization and offers a revisionist perspective on human societies and their development. Early cultures seasonally changed their political organization and lived in very different ways. Some were hierarchical in the summer and egalitarian in the winter. Others were only temporarily patriarchal in their organization. Eventually, people started to believe that only one system was possible, and its dominance was inevitable from the beginning.