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"Many of these communities were egalitarian and some were hunter-gatherers, which meant that work was undertaken through conviction and belief, not coercion, in many cases. All those sites like Cahokia have been long investigated, the Staggering nature of further site since only recently been appreciated, as has the totality of the phenomena, the sights and connections differ over space and time, but they definitely bear comparison one with another. The careful construction of Mounds, using materials selected from the local landscape, reminds us of the kurgans of Eurasia, in the sense that people were carefully and materially mapping their landscapes, in the process bringing the important human connections of materials to the for particularly those with various forms of Earth in Cahokia."

From Magic (A History), p. 318