Caveats that I haven’t yet explored endnotes or bibliography, and I’m only partway through the section on big changes away from urbanization… but having said that: I need to know so much more about the “egalitarian economies” that Moundville, Cahokia, and the Huhugam evolved into! She does a pretty good job of giving specific examples of decentralized and non-hierarchical politics and governance systems (a lot of which is brand new to me) especially gendered systems of checks and balances, and acknowledging inherent tensions (war councils and peace councils with equal power — what an idea!). But she gives no clue whatsoever (yet?) how economies functioned. She talks about trade before and after climate-induced decentralization, and a bit about compulsory labor… but I really wanna know about things like money, property, resource distribution, management of the commons…