February Book Club: The Invention of Prehistory

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We will read the first half of The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origin, by Stefanos Geroulanos.

From Amazon:
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory—and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.