What was the economy of the Anasazi?

Answer 1

Then Pueblo people Anasazi were spread out over a large landscape and probably represented several language families and cultures just as their descendants, the Modern Pueblo people, do today. They all farmed corn, beans, squash, sunflowers and raised domestic turkeys.

Some people specialized in tools or pottery or weaving. Some were probably priests and leaders.

They all gathered wild fruits and vegetables and hunted game.

A number of places were clearly trading hubs for the whole region. Goods from as far away as the Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, central Mexico and the northern Plains came through the area. They traded, just as modern Pueblos did into historic times, salt, macaw feathers, shell, gem stones, obsidian and jasper, parrots, turkeys, corn, wild foods, bison, cotton, weaving, pottery, hides, furs, dried meat and art and ideas as well.

Some areas are though to have been large ceremonial centers so those areas the economy was based on the religion and who ever maintained it. Maybe a little like monastery towns in Europe at the same time period.