Task: Question Answering
Input (English): According to Timothy Pauketat, the evidence for social stratification and political power at Cahokia suggests:
(A)a center of Mississippian civilization with conditions similar to the rise of early states. (B)the limitations of authority in a Native American society of egalitarian foragers. (C)a simple chiefdom or perhaps a complex chiefdom had evolved by A.D. 1500. (D)a center of Mississippian civilization with conditions similar to societies on the Northwest Coast of North America.
Output (English): A