Clues From Life and Death

Clues From Life and Death. . We can learn a lot of information about the people who lived in the pueblo from what they left behind., The hillside below you was a refuse site that yielded clues about the diet and daily life of the people of the village. We know they hunted large and small game with obsidian-tipped arrows and made plain red and brown pottery., They planted crops of corn, cotton, squash, and beans, and also cultivated agave and prickly pear for food and fibers. Their fields ran along the river's floodplain, the flat area below that extends to the hills in the distance., Clues to their customs also came from the bodies buried here. We know people were sent thoughtfully to the afterlife equipped with food, shell and stone jewelry, and pottery, while others were buried with the tools of their trade. Burials suggest the differing social status and skills a person acquired over their lifetime., Captions , Burials unearthed in the 1930s exposed dozens of details about everyday life here. But the excavations are troubling for people, who do not want to disturb burials. Today, the National Park Service avoids intruding on these important and personal places