Eight contributors discuss early trade relations between Plains and Pueblo farmers, the evolution of interdependence between Plains hunter-gatherers and Pueblo farmers between 1450 and 1700, and the later comanchero trade between Hispanic New Mexicans and the Plains Comanche.

Katherine A. Spielmann received her AB from Harvard University in 1976 and her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1982. Since that time, she has held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution and was a member of the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. In 1987, she joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University. Since 1984, she has conducted fieldwork at two late prehistoric/historic pueblo sites (Gran Quivara Pueblo and Pueblo Colorado) in central New Mexico.