Resource Type
Blogs & Blog Posts
There are many excellent blogs and blog posts discussing ethical issues facing archaeologists. This literature is fast-paced and constantly emerging. This page offers a representative sample and is updated yearly. This includes individual blog posts covering a wide variety of ethical issues and blogs that regularly discuss archaeological ethics. If you would like to submit a blog or post for consideration, feel free to contact us via our contact form.
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“What’s in it for me?” (about money, academia and ethics) (Bodies and Academia)
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(Un)Free Archaeology
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17 Great Archaeology Blogs on the Antiquities Trade and Looting That YOU Should Read. (Doug's Archaeology)
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AAA Ethics Blog
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Ableism in Archaeology (Go Dig a Hole)
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Across the Atlantic: professionalism in archaeology over here and over there (Doug's Archaeology)
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Against the universal museum (Aegean prehistory)
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An Archaeologist’s View of “Digger” Shows (Preservation Archaeology)
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An education that prepares archaeologists for archaeology (Succinct Research Blog)
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Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives
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ANTH 392 Archaeology and Heritage
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Appropriation (?) of the Month: Who Should Benefit from Ancient Human Remains?: Legal, Ethical, and Economic Challenges (IPinCH Blog)
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Archaeodeath
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Archaeological Looting in Central Italy: Developing Protection Strategies (IPinCH Blog)
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Archaeologists Can Fight Back (Succinct Research Blog)
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Archaeology & Heritage
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Archaeology and Material Culture
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Archaeology and the Public (SEAC Underground)
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Archaeology Education at a Crossroads (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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Archaeology, Museums, & Outreach
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ASOR and Archaeological Ethics (The ASOR Blog)
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Auctioning Atari: Archaeology, Ethics, and Contemporary Practice (The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World)
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Authorship: Who gets credit? (Publishing Archaeology)
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Bears Ears and the Issue with Ownership (MAPA Blog)
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Beyond Preservation: Expanding the Ethical Responsibilities of Archaeologists (AAA Ethics Blog)
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Beyond Stuff-based Ownership: Do Archaeologists have an Obligation to People? (AAA Ethics Blog)
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Bodies and Academia
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Bone Broke
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Breaking In: Women’s Representation in Archaeology (The ASOR Blog)
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Bureau of Land Management Auctions Off Land Near Chaco Canyon (SAFE Blog)
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Celebrate the 111th Anniversary of the Antiquities Act—By Defending It (Preservation Archaeology)
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Checks and Balances: The Legal Future for Archaeology and Archaeologists (MAPA Blog)
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Commercial archaeology and the ethics of development (10 Simple Steps to Better Archaeological Management)
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Community based participatory research and heritage conservation (Succinct Research Blog)
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Conflict Antiquities
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Could Brexit present an opportunity to return the Parthenon Marbles? (Elginism)
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Critical Reflection on Barriers to Ethical Archaeological Practice Based on a Collaborative Museum Project at Xaltocan, Mexico (AAA Ethics Blog)
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Crowdfunding: A Smart Way to Fund a Project, or Walking an Ethical Line? (ANTH 392 Archaeology and Heritage)
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Cultural Property & Archaeology Law
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Cultural Property Repatriation News and Issues
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DAPL is the biggest issue in Public Archaeology right now (MAPA Blog)
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Diggers Done Right (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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Diggin' it or not diggin' it? Should archaeologists dig up the dead? (Ideas and Creations Blog)
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Dismantling Archaeology: Challenging Ourselves, Our Ethics, and Our Priorities (Unstratified)
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Diversity and Difference in SHA (Society for Historical Archaeology)
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Do You Get to Keep What You Find? (The ASOR Blog)
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Does historic preservation contribute to gentrification? (Succinct Research Blog)
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Doug's Archaeology
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Elginism
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Engaging the Community in Local Archaeology through a Friends Group (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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Equity (Issues) for All, Historical Archaeology as a Profession in the 21st Century (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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Ethical archaeology? (Blogging Pompeii)
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Ethical Muddy Water and CRM (Go Dig a Hole)
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Ethical Responsibility in the Face of the Incoming Administration (AAA Ethics Blog)
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Ethics of Accepting Student Volunteers (Doug's Archaeology)
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Ethics: Who Decides? (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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Evaluating Public Archaeology (MAPA Blog)
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Facts, Biases, and How We Sift through Them (Preservation Archaeology)
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Free archaeology: job insecurity and the need for an archaeological minimum wage ((Un)Free Archaeology)
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Free Ports Bound to Cultural Property Trafficking Ties (SAFE Blog)
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Go Dig a Hole
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Going Public
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Grand Challenges for Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality (Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives)
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Grand Challenges: Climate Change and Unemployment (The Ossiferous Arctic)
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Greece, the Parthenon Marbles & UNESCO (Elginism)
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Heritage for Transformation (Blog)
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Historical Archaeology will be Televised: Ethics, Archaeology, and Popular Culture (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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How Archaeological Sites Are Preserved (The Archaeological Conservancy Blog)
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I think the reason why I am scared to write this story on gender discrimination in academia is precisely why it is needed (The Bioarchaeology of Childhood)
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Illicit trafficking, provenance research and due diligence… and confidence and risk (Conflict Antiquities)
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Indigenous groups in Canada call for National Museum of Scotland to return human remains (Cultural Property Repatriation News and Issues)
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International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Blog
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International Repatriation Blog
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Interview with the Society of Black Archaeologists (Succinct Research Blog)
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IPinCH Blog
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Is bad research unethical? (Publishing Archaeology)
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Is it an archaeologist's job to educate racist construction crews? (Succinct Research Blog)
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Is Public Engagement the Future of Archaeology? (MAPA Blog)
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Just get to the point!: The controversy over stone tools (Going Public)
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Licensed for sale? (Market of Mass Destruction)
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Looting Matters
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Losing Knowledge: A Challenge for Archaeology (Looting Matters)
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Man Found Guilty for Trafficking Over 500 Artifacts from Mexico to Big Bend National Park (SAFE Blog)
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Manalot – The All Male Round Table (Archaeodeath)
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Manifestos and the Manly Future of Archaeological Theory (Unstratified)
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MAPA Blog
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Market of Mass Destruction
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Memory, Monuments, and Confederate Things: Contesting the 21st-Century Confederacy (Archaeology and Material Culture)
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Museums and Professional Responsibilities (Looting Matters)
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NAGPRA After Kennewick Man (MAPA Blog)
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Natural Disasters and Their Impact on Looting and Destruction of Cultural Heritage (SAFE Blog)
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Nazis, Ethics and Tolerance (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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New Bill will Protect Ancient Sites in War Zones (Penn CHC Blog)
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New U.S. Import Restrictions on Syrian Archaeological and Ethnographic Material (SAFE Blog)
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Political agendas and sponsorship in archaeology (Doug's Archaeology)
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Practice Safe Conferencing: Stealing Ideas and why you really WANT to have your conference presentation filmed (Doug's Archaeology)
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Presenting Archaeology to the Public: Obligation and Opportunity (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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Preservation Archaeology
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Program Evaluation and Archaeology: Considerations and Future Projections (SEAC Underground)
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Public Archaeology 2015
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Public Archaeology: resources (Bodies and Academia)
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Publishing Archaeology
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Queer Archaeology and the Public (MAPA Blog)
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Queering Archaeological Practice (MAPA Blog)
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Recapping Stewardship Day 2016 in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon (Preservation Archaeology)
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Remembering The Public: Connecting Archaeology & Outreach (The Archaeological Conservancy Blog)
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Repatriating Indigenous Cultural Heritage: What’s Reconciliation Got to Do With It? (IPinCH Blog)
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Repatriating One’s Own Cultural Heritage: The Te Pahi Medal (IPinCH Blog)
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Repatriation of Aboriginal Remains and Artifacts in Canada (Cultural Property & Archaeology Law)
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Researching human bodies displays- why bother? (Bodies and Academia)
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SAFE Blog
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SEAC Underground
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Society for Historical Archaeology Blog
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Stanford Symposium on the Ethics and Legal Issues in Collecting "African Art" (Cultural Property Repatriation News and Issues)
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Steward the Past and Avoid Harm? (AAA Ethics Blog)
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Student Post: Preservation Archaeology (Preservation Archaeology)
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Succinct Research Blog
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Survey of Sexual Harassment in Southeastern Archaeology, online now (SEAC Underground)
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Take Action: Stand with the Antiquities Act (Preservation Archaeology)
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The Archaeological Conservancy Blog
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The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
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The Archaeology of Vulnerability: Hurricane Katrina and archaeology in the midst of disaster (MAPA Blog)
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The ASOR Blog
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The Dozier School for Boys and Archaeological Ethics (Topics in Florida Archaeology)
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The End of an Era: On History, Context and Confederate Monuments (International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Blog)
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The Ethics of Collaborating with Artifact Collectors (AAA Ethics Blog)
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The Ethics of Context: Exploring Assumptions in Discussions About the Looting of Archaeological Sites (Cultural Property & Archaeology Law)
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The Ethics of Historical Archaeology (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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The Grand Challenge for CRM Archaeology (Process)
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The Grand Challenges for Archaeology: A Blogging Carnival (Bone Broke)
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The Heritage Journal
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The Hobby Lobby Case and the Black Market in Portable Antiquities (Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues)
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The legal framework for destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: A War-crime? (5/7) (SAFE Blog)
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The legal framework for destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: Further legal considerations (6/7) (SAFE Blog)
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The legal framework for the destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: Concluding considerations (7/7) (SAFE Blog)
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The legal framework for the destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: Overview (1/7) (SAFE Blog)
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The legal framework for the destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: The manuscripts and shrines of Timbuktu (3/7) (SAFE Blog)
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The legal framework for the destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: The significance of the cases (4/7) (SAFE Blog)
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The legal framework for the destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: What is the background for destruction of cultural heritage? (2/7) (SAFE Blog)
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The Missing Ethics of Heritage (AAA Ethics Blog)
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The Morality of Property and Cultural Patrimony (Archaeology and Material Culture)
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The Peep Show of Death: Televising Human Remains (Archaeology and Material Culture)
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The Rihani ‘provenance’ (Market of Mass Destruction)
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The STOP Act: Proposed Legislation to Stop the Export of Native American Cultural Patrimony (SAFE Blog)
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The Underground Sale of History (ANTH 392 Archaeology and Heritage)
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There needs to be a cultural shift to accommodate children at conferences, and here are some ways to achieve this (The Bioarchaeology of Childhood)
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Thinking Through Access to Justice in Aboriginal Communities (IPinCH Blog)
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Tribal Archaeology as Ownership of the Ancestral Past (IPinCH Blog)
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Unstratified
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Why cultural heritage is not ‘at risk’ (in Syria or anywhere) (Heritage for Transformation (Blog))
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Why Does The DAPL Matter in the Southeast? Or Anywhere? (The Archaeological Conservancy Blog)
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Why historical archaeology should pay attention to the Occupy movement (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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Why programs like “Battlefield Recovery” show that archeologists’ work with the media is far from done (Society for Historical Archaeology Blog)
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Why Protect Archaeological Sites? (The TARL Blog)
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Yale Agrees to Return Machu Picchu Artifacts to Peru: Ethics-Based Repatriation Efforts Gain Steam (Cultural Property & Archaeology Law)