The muiscas was excellent farmers, they cultivated corn, potato, bean and fruits like the pineapple, , avocado, and guava.They also hunted rabbits, deers and diverse birds.
They were more skilled that the tairones shovel to spin the cotton and to manufacture very beautiful and well made cloths. With these cloths they elaborated blankets and coats that protected them of the cold.
They made wide variety of pots and vessels of mud which painted and they adorned with drawings of animals. They also worked with gold and they made decorations that nowadays remain in the Museum of the Gold in Bogotá.
They took out emeralds in sogamoso, using pointed bars in wood. They also explored copper locations and gold. However, the treasure but valuable of the muiscas you were the salt the sual they extracted of the Zipa and Nemocon mines.
With the salt they made exchanges or changes of goods with other tribes, the muiscas gave salt and they received gold, cotton, shells and feathers of several colors.One can say that the salt was the currency or money of the muiscas.
Contrary to the taironas the muiscas used the stone to make your constructions. the houses made them with mud and straw; the roofs were made of straw. At the present time there is not anything of the houses and the temples since muiscas were damaged.
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