People in the pueblo hunted large and small game with obsidian-tipped arrows, made plain red and brown pottery, and planted corn, cotton, squash, and beans while also cultivating 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. A refuse site on the hillside yielded clues about their diet and daily life, and burials revealed customs surrounding death and social life. People were sent thoughtfully to the afterlife with food, shell and stone jewelry, and pottery, while others were buried with the tools of their trade. These burials suggest differing social status and the skills a person acquired over a lifetime. Burials unearthed in the 1930s exposed dozens of details about everyday life here, though such excavations are troubling for people who do not want to disturb burials, and today the National Park Service avoids intruding on these important and personal places.