# The Dawn of Everything

> However, Graeber and Wengrow's overall narrative rejects basic materialist analysis in favor of a muddy historical idealism and often deploys questionable rhetoric in the place of rigorous argument, as Walter Scheidel has pointed out in: "Resetting History's Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity",
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> – [[Forest and Factory]]