Another way into the 'Dawn of Everything' book's message

See - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/06/ancient-garden-cities-amazon-indigenous-technologies-archaeology-lost-civilisations-environment-terra-preta

It presents the same sort of evidence as Graeber and Wengow's book does, but this time with technical details and pictures !

That book's message from the past is that the 'nobel savage' view of the deep past, assumed by Hobbes and Locke, with its supposed inevitability of top-down authoritarian rule (lots of varieties to choose from) as human communities increased in size, is wrong.

The above article says -

"These lost rainforest cities may seem to have little in common with today’s steel and asphalt behemoths but according to experts, early Amazonian metropolises are remarkable for what they tell us about the way ancestral urbanites lived off the land without trampling it.".

Quoting Eduardo Neves, of the University of São Paulo, it also says -

“We can safely say that biodiversity in the Amazon only exists because, and not in spite, of its inhabitants, who safeguarded their environment by transforming it,”.

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