Hopi speakers, in the ceremonies and stories of their thriving pueblos in eastern Arizona, refer to the landscape of Canyons of the Ancients National Monument  as Tawtoykya, meaning “the place where the songs came from.” For archaeologists and other modern  visitors, echoes of these “songs” are heard when viewing the skill and wisdom built into the Monument’s majestic standing prehistoric stone structures. Puebloan individuals, families, and communities developed and refined architectural techniques that allowed them to thrive in this landscape for hundreds of generations. And, while they are just one set of tools for understanding these reservoirs of Indigenous knowledge, techniques such as LiDAR, photogrammetry, and reflectance transformation imaging finally offer the precision and detail necessary for properly documenting these resources.  For the past 15 years, the BLM and the Center of Preservation Research at the University of Colorado Denver have worked in partnership to apply these modern techniques to the preservation and understanding of these ancient resources. This talk will discuss the methods for creating accurate digital and analog records of these vital cultural places that are so  critical to their future interpretation and preservation.