I read it a few weeks ago. It is very good and highly recommended. I feel this opened my eyes quite a bit in the following ways:

- history is not a linear progression and narrative, sometimes things happen in leaps and also can go "backward"

- farming was something that was dabbled in for a millenia before fully committing to it

- the idea of "egalitarianism" is quite vague and can be understood in many ways

- ideas about egalitarianism moved from native americans to the french .. not they other way around

- lots of very interesting stories about how our ancestors were not stupid

- lots of questions about how archeology has been interpreted and how a lot of the evidence does not support the mainstream narrative

- gives examples of societies where "leadership/politics" was actively avoided

- has a nice background on different ingredients of statehood and how they manifested in history

I have a feeling this might be the seminal book for having a fresh analysis and reassessment of lot of what is called "prehistory".

Very highly recommended from my side. I will re-read it a few times probably and gift it to a few friends.