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English

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Abstract: I began working as an ethnoarchaeologist in Yarsuit, also known as Kuna Yala, or Commarca de San Blas in 1995. I was interested in studying how a population living in a tropical, maritime environment formed middens with their refuse. I wanted to know what they considered refuse, when it became refuse, and how the people disposed of it. This information would be used to offer insights for valid interpretation of midden samples from the coastal peninsulas along the Georgia, Florida, and Alabama coastline in the Southeastern United States.

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RPA Codes & Standards

• Adequate Preparation for Research Projects
• Archaeologist's Responsibility to Colleagues, Employees, and Students
• Archaeologist's Responsibility to the Public
• Integrity of Research Methodology
• Procedures for Field Survey or Excavation

CIfA Codes

• Principle 3: Responsibility for acquiring and recording reliable information of the past in archaeological research
• Principle 4: Responsibility for the availability of archaeological results within reasonable dispatch
• Principle 5: Recognition of aspirations of employees, colleagues and helpers in all matters of employment

Keywords & Terms

• Consultation/Partnership with Affected Groups
• Consultation/Partnership with Indigenous Peoples
• Integrity of Research Methodology and Field Procedures
• Intellectual Property
• Standards of Data Collection, Recordation, Analysis

Topics & Issues

• Collaboration in Archaeology (i.e. Communities, Non-Archaeologists, etc.)
• Ethical Case Studies
• Ethical Responsibilities of Archaeologists
• Ethnography
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Interpreting the Past