Quote by David Grann

“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

“I’ve always rejected the great-man idea. The belief that human history was formed by singular individuals instead of broad social forces? Romantic, but …”…

— James S.A. Corey

“There were so many forms of prehistoric technology. Of those, men dig a few which fit into current society.”

— Toba Beta

“in the not-so-distant future we might again have to contend with non-sapiens humans.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an…

— Émile Durkheim

“My tastes, like my bones, fossilized decades ago. Reach a certain age and you are obliged to become an anthropologist. It's the only way…

— Julia Glass

“Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.”

— Vernor Vinge

“Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.”

— John Lanchester

“They also explain many common points in the archaeological finds of these civilizations as due to man’s genetic commonality. Thus”

— Robert Doherty

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker