How did ancient puebloans adapt to their environment

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How did the Ancestral Puebloans adapt their housing to the building materials that were available in the arid Southwest? The Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloans) built cliff dwellings, such as the site at Mesa Verde in Colorado. These hand cut stone block structures provided protection from raiders and invaders.

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.