David Wengrow

David Wengrow (born 25 July 1972) is a British archaeologist and Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He holds a BA, MSt, and DPhil from Oxford University. He co-authored The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity with anthropologist David Graeber, which became a New York Times bestseller and won the J.I. Staley Prize and the Wenjin Book Prize. The book was a finalist for the Orwell Prize in 2022.