David Wengrow

David Wengrow FSA is a British archaeologist and Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He co-authored the New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, which won the J.I. Staley Prize for outstanding scholarship in anthropology, and the 20th Wenjin Book Prize, one of China's highest literary honours. The book was also a finalist for the Orwell Prize in 2022. Wengrow has contributed essays on topics such as social inequality and climate change to The Guardian and The New York Times. In 2021 he was ranked No. 10 in ArtReview's Power 100 list of the most influential people in art.