The Pueblo Indians are named for the Spanish word for town. This is because they lived in a permanent housing settlement and did not move around much. The Pueblo Indians made their houses out of stone, adobe, and wood and built them with flat roofs that could sometimes be higher then the usual one story living quarters of Indians at the time. One of the things that benefited them in being able to build permanent settlements and not need to move around is the fact that they had developed working farming techniques that they there able to sustain themselves on and that they lived in the fertile Mesa Verde region. Since they had all the food they needed right there, they did not need to move around like hunters and gatherers who had to follow
