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  What Do the Places of our Shared Past Mean to You?


Tell us why you care about southwestern archaeology. What is it that connects you to the Southwest's past? Please, share your thoughts. With your permission, we will add them to our website. You can read other people's reasons for caring about our past, and submit your own story here.

Recent Submissions:
Seeing Back in Time
  By: Beth Miksa - February 28th, 2006
  As a geologist, the thing I enjoy most about the desert is the strong sense of "deep" time that I get when I work with materials that are over a billion years old. Read Full Article

Connections
  By: James Hewitt and Lynn Perez-Hewitt - January 2nd, 2006
  What do the places of our shared past mean to me? A connection with simpler times, with people who are different enough from ourselves that we must stop and appreciate who they were so we can better understand who we are and where we are going.

What do the places of the shared past mean?
  By: Roger and Lesley McPeek - January 2nd, 2006
  They are first and foremost irreplaceable. Beyond that, they hold information about past cultures that is not only of general interest by may hold secrets about our own survival as well.

Past, Present, and Future
  By: Barry Perron - January 2nd, 2006
  If I am not aware of the past I am not aware of the present or can plan for the future.

Shared Identity - Common Ground
  By: Larry Baker - Salmon Ruins - December 27th, 2005
  As a result of my interest in architecture, it is probably the buildings and their settings that provide a sense of identity ... Read Full Article

My Today was Their Future
  By: Cherie Freeman - December 21st, 2005
  As an Arizona Site Steward and volunteer archaeologist, I am fortunate to get to know some special places in the Southwest .... Read Full Article

Lessons from the Past: Resisting Fear of the 'Other'
  By: Jeffery J. Clark - December 20th, 2005
  As a part of the larger discipline of anthropology, I believe archaeology is supposed to take lessons from the past and apply them to the present. Otherwise, what we archaeologists do is just entertainment. Read Full Article

The Remains of Our Past Give Our World Meaning
  By: Bruce Hilpert - December 16th, 2005
  I would say that as much as I love the outdoors and our natural resources, as a hard-core humanist it is the human presence in our world that gives it relevance .... Read Full Article

Places to Come Together for Better Understanding in the Present
  By: Anna Neuzil, Center for Desert Archaeology - November 29th, 2005
  I often wonder to myself why I felt compelled to study the ancient past in the Greater Southwest, and why I feel personally connected to this area ... Read Full Article

Places of Our Shared Past
  By: Linda Pierce - November 29th, 2005
  Preserving the Places of Our Shared Past - That's a catchy phrase .... Lately, I've found myself thinking about the concept of a "shared" past, and what that actually means to me. Why is it that I see the Southwest's past as mine? Read Full Article

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