Extra-Regional Relationships

Although the Anasazi were sedentary, the presence of various trade goods and exotic items on the MAPL Pueblo I sites is indicative of extra-regional trading relationships with other cultural groups. Trade goods are usually luxury or specialty items that cannot be procured locally. These non-local items are usually present in small quantities at habitation sites. The MAPL non-local artifact assemblage contains the following: red ware ceramics from southeast Utah; obsidian from the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico; Narbona Pass chert from the Chuska Mountains along the New Mexico/Arizona border; marine shell from the Gulf of California; at least one piece of turquoise from the San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado, and other turquoise probably from the Cerillos, New Mexico area; malachite (unknown source); and Utah wonderstone from Kanab, Utah.