What did the ancestral pueblos trade?

Answer 1

We will never know all the things they traded because we lack written records of the time. However we do know things they traded that they could not have gotten any other way. We have found shell from the Gulf of Mexico and the Sea of Cortez, and abalone shells from the Pacific coast of what is now California. We have found parrot feathers from Mexico but are not sure weather birds or just feathers were traded. We know that corn started in central or southern Mexico and farming it became central to life in the Pueblos so it must have come with traders. Turkeys were raised by the Pueblo people and they were domesticated in Central America. Obsidian, turquoise and flint and pigments were traded from the Pueblo lands to the south, north and west. In historic times woven goods and agricultural products were traded for hides and furs and meat. We can't know if that was done because they would not be preserved.