Multiple Southwestern cultures thrived and then died out due to climate change. But who’d ask a pesky Injun whether or not that was a good place to build a city?
Most of them were either nomadic and moved between habitable areas between seasons or lived near oasis and other water sources so not really the desert.
Multiple Southwestern cultures thrived and then died out due to climate change. But who’d ask a pesky Injun whether or not that was a good place to build a city?
https://www.sciencealert.com/over-and-over-again-rising-social-tension-preceded-collapses-of-pueblo-societies
Most of them were either nomadic and moved between habitable areas between seasons or lived near oasis and other water sources so not really the desert.
Apparently the honest answer is “sometimes”