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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(Un)Free Archaeology
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#metoo in Cultural Resource Management Archaeology
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#SAA2019 #MeToo
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17 Great Archaeology Blogs on the Antiquities Trade and Looting That YOU Should Read.
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2,000 Archaeologists and Scholars Ask Society for American Archaeology to Review Sexual Harassment Policy [UPDATED]
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91 Stories of Archaeology
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A Crowdsourced Survey of Sexual Harassment in the Academy
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AAA Ethics Blog
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Across the Atlantic: professionalism in archaeology over here and over there
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Against the universal museum
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American Schools of Oriental Research Blog
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An Archaeologist’s View of “Digger” Shows
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An education that prepares archaeologists for archaeology
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An Introduction to the Ethics, Politics, and Practicality of Ancient DNA Research in Archaeological Contexts
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Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives
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Appropriation (?) of the Month: Who Should Benefit from Ancient Human Remains?: Legal, Ethical, and Economic Challenges
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Archaeodeath
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Archaeological Looting in Central Italy: Developing Protection Strategies
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Archaeologists Can Fight Back
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Archaeology & Heritage
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Archaeology and the Public
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Archaeology Education at a Crossroads
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Archaeology Fieldwork (An Online Guide to Health and Safety for Archaeologists)
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Archaeology, Museums, & Outreach
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Auctioning Atari: Archaeology, Ethics, and Contemporary Practice
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Authorship: Who gets credit?
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Back from the Future: ISIS and the Impact of the Present on the Past in the Present
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Bears Ears and the Issue with Ownership
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Beyond Preservation: Expanding the Ethical Responsibilities of Archaeologists
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Beyond Stuff-based Ownership: Do Archaeologists have an Obligation to People?
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Bodies and Academia
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Bone Broke
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Bones, Stones, and Books
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Breaking In: Women’s Representation in Archaeology
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Bureau of Land Management Auctions Off Land Near Chaco Canyon
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Celebrate the 111th Anniversary of the Antiquities Act—By Defending It
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Checks and Balances: The Legal Future for Archaeology and Archaeologists
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Cleaning Up the Field: A Conversation About Harassment in Mediterranean Archaeology
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Commercial archaeology and the ethics of development
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Community based participatory research and heritage conservation
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Conflict Antiquities
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Could Brexit present an opportunity to return the Parthenon Marbles?
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Critical Reflection on Barriers to Ethical Archaeological Practice Based on a Collaborative Museum Project at Xaltocan, Mexico
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Cultural heritage beyond Culturalism
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Cultural Property & Archaeology Law
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DAPL is the biggest issue in Public Archaeology right now
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Diggers Done Right
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Diggin’ it or not diggin’ it? Should archaeologists dig up the dead?
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Dismantling Archaeology: Challenging Ourselves, Our Ethics, and Our Priorities
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Diversity and Difference in SHA
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Do You Get to Keep What You Find?
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Does historic preservation contribute to gentrification?
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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
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Equity (Issues) for All, Historical Archaeology as a Profession in the 21st Century
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Ethical archaeology?
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Ethical Responsibility in the Face of the Incoming Administration
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Ethics of Accepting Student Volunteers
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Ethics: Who Decides?
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Evaluating Public Archaeology
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Facts, Biases, and How We Sift through Them
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Free archaeology: job insecurity and the need for an archaeological minimum wage
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Free Ports Bound to Cultural Property Trafficking Ties
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Going Public
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Grand Challenges for Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality
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Grand Challenges: Climate Change and Unemployment
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Greece, the Parthenon Marbles & UNESCO
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Hashtags and Seas Lions – Using Social Media to Break Down Pseudoarchaeology
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Historical Archaeology will be Televised: Ethics, Archaeology, and Popular Culture
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How Archaeological Sites Are Preserved
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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
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Illicit trafficking, provenance research and due diligence… and confidence and risk
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Indigenous groups in Canada call for National Museum of Scotland to return human remains
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International Experts Refute ‘Alien’ Mummy Analysis, Question Ethics And Legality
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International Repatriation Blog
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Interview with the Society of Black Archaeologists
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IPinCH Blog
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Is bad research unethical?
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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?
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Just get to the point!: The controversy over stone tools
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Lara Croft is Back With a Bang – But There Are Real Tomb Raiders Out There
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Licensed for sale?
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Looting Matters
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Looting Matters
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Looting Matters
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Looting Matters
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Looting Matters
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Looting Matters
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Losing Knowledge: A Challenge for Archaeology
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Making A Case for Ethics-Centered Education in Archaeology
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Man Found Guilty for Trafficking Over 500 Artifacts from Mexico to Big Bend National Park
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Manalot – The All Male Round Table
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Manifestos and the Manly Future of Archaeological Theory
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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
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Museums and Professional Responsibilities
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NAGPRA After Kennewick Man
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Natural Disasters and Their Impact on Looting and Destruction of Cultural Heritage
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Nazis, Ethics and Tolerance
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New Bill will Protect Ancient Sites in War Zones
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New U.S. Import Restrictions on Syrian Archaeological and Ethnographic Material
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One Spreadsheet Reveals the Horrifying Ubiquity of Sexual Harassment in Academia
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Political agendas and sponsorship in archaeology
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Practice Safe Conferencing: Stealing Ideas and why you really WANT to have your conference presentation filmed
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Presenting Archaeology to the Public: Obligation and Opportunity
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Preservation Archaeology
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Program Evaluation and Archaeology: Considerations and Future Projections
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Public Archaeology 2015
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Public Archaeology: resources
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Publishing Archaeology
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Queer Archaeology and the Public
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Queering Archaeological Practice
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Recapping Stewardship Day 2016 in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon
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Remembering The Public: Connecting Archaeology & Outreach
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Repatriating Indigenous Cultural Heritage: What’s Reconciliation Got to Do With It?
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Repatriating One’s Own Cultural Heritage: The Te Pahi Medal
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Repatriation of Aboriginal Remains and Artifacts in Canada
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Researching human bodies displays- why bother?
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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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Some Resources for Case Studies in Research Ethics
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Stanford Symposium on the Ethics and Legal Issues in Collecting “African Art”
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Steward the Past and Avoid Harm?
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Student Post: Preservation Archaeology
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Succinct Research Blog
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Summertime Fragments
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Survey of Sexual Harassment in Southeastern Archaeology, online now
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Take Action: Stand with the Antiquities Act
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The 2020 Race Uprisings and Archaeology’s Response
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The Archaeological Conservancy Blog
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The Archaeology of Vulnerability: Hurricane Katrina and archaeology in the midst of disaster
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The ASOR Blog
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The Dozier School for Boys and Archaeological Ethics
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The End of an Era: On History, Context and Confederate Monuments
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The Ethics of Collaborating with Artifact Collectors
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The Ethics of Context: Exploring Assumptions in Discussions About the Looting of Archaeological Sites
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The Ethics of Historical Archaeology
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The Grand Challenge for CRM Archaeology
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The Grand Challenges for Archaeology: A Blogging Carnival
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The Harvey Weinstein in Your Industry [Podcast]
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The Heritage Journal
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The Hobby Lobby Case and the Black Market in Portable Antiquities
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The legal framework for destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: A War-crime? (5/7)
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The legal framework for destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: Further legal considerations (6/7)
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The legal framework for the destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: Concluding considerations (7/7)
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The legal framework for the destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu during 2012-2013: Overview (1/7)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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The Missing Ethics of Heritage
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The Morality of Property and Cultural Patrimony
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The Peep Show of Death: Televising Human Remains
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The Rihani ‘provenance’
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The STOP Act: Proposed Legislation to Stop the Export of Native American Cultural Patrimony
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There needs to be a cultural shift to accommodate children at conferences, and here are some ways to achieve this
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Thinking Through Access to Justice in Aboriginal Communities
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Toward A Safer Archaeology
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Treasure Hunting: Who Owns the World
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Tribal Archaeology as Ownership of the Ancestral Past
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Unstratified
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What’s in it for me? (money, academia and ethics)
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Why cultural heritage is not ‘at risk’ (in Syria or anywhere)
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Why Does The DAPL Matter in the Southeast? Or Anywhere?
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Why historical archaeology should pay attention to the Occupy movement
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Why programs like “Battlefield Recovery” show that archeologists’ work with the media is far from done
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Why Protect Archaeological Sites?
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Why the Whiteness of Archaeology Is a Problem
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Yale Agrees to Return Machu Picchu Artifacts to Peru: Ethics-Based Repatriation Efforts Gain Steam