Societies that later emerged in the Americas—some highly egalitarian—should be understood as having historical consciousness of earlier hierarchical systems like Cahokia and Pueblo civilizations, and as having made deliberate choices to adopt egalitarianism rather than simply always being that way.
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David WengrowEvidence Quote
“we're talking about people with fully developed historical consciousness who do have in their own histories the history of kerokia and the whole Regional system that it generated...there is a hierarchical past there that people have for one reason or another turned their backs on and created a different form of society”
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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream— Novara MediaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:30:32 PM
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