To: blam
Anyone know what the urban Chaco people did for a living? Did they produce some good or service to exchange for the food?
7 posted on
10/14/2003 4:25:13 PM PDT by
decimon
To: decimon
"Anyone know what the urban Chaco people did for a living? Did they produce some good or service to exchange for the food?" There are/were a lot of kivas/religious functions at Chaco. Maybe they were donations.(?)
9 posted on
10/14/2003 4:34:37 PM PDT by
blam
To: decimon
Chetro Ketl (notice the large kiva, it's the round thing)
10 posted on
10/14/2003 4:38:54 PM PDT by
blam
To: decimon
I suspect they agreed not to kill the peasants for food. Not killing peasants-a very useful service to the peasants.
11 posted on
10/14/2003 4:43:31 PM PDT by
seowulf
To: decimon
They were trading for corn with homo grown "JERKY".
To: decimon
Bingo!
What was the basis for trade?
Living in an arid and generally inhospitible place and having extensive trade suggests SOMETHING of value that was readily available to the locals.
Las Vegas aside, a pre-Colombian Vatican aside, the old people must have had something that others wanted badly.
31 posted on
10/14/2003 9:28:22 PM PDT by
norton
(Hey sailor, you want my seester?)
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