Resource Type
Journal Articles
This page includes peer-reviewed journal articles that discuss issues and topics related to archaeological ethics. Each entry includes an abstract or short description, as well as information on where to find the article online. Please note that many online databases require institutional access to download articles.
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‘Where angels fear to tread’: ethics, commercial archaeology, and extractive industries in southern Africa
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“Power to the People”: Sociopolitics and the Archaeology of Black Americans
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“I Like to Keep my Archaeology Dead”. Alienation and Othering of the Past as an Ethical Problem
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Acquisitions Archaeology — Professional Ethics
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American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences
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An Argument for Ethical, Proactive, Archaeologist-Artifact Collector Collaboration
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An Ethos for Archaeological Practice
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An Interdisciplinary Investigation of African Rock Art Images to Learn about Science & Culture: Blending Biology, Geology, History & Ethics
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An Issue of Ethics? Curation and the Obligations of Archaeology
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Ancient DNAs Impact on Archaeology: What has been learned and How to build strong relationships.
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Archaeological Ethics Education in the University: A View from an Early Career Instructor
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Archaeologists on Conservation: How Codes of Archaeological Ethics and Professional Standards Treat Conservation
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Archaeologists on Conservation: How codes of archaeological ethics and professional standards treat conservation
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Archaeology and Conflict: An Impossible Relationship?
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Archaeology and landscape ethics
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Archaeology and Modern Reflections on Death
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Archaeology and Professional Ethical Codes in Israel in the mid 80s: The Case of the Association of Archaeologists in Israel and Its Code of Ethics
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Archaeology and the Ethics of Collecting
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Archaeology, Ethics, and Character: Using Our Cultural Heritage to Teach Citizenship
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Archeological human remains: Scientific, cultural, and ethical considerations
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Beyond Ethics: Professionalism and Social Belonging in Social Workers’ Moral Deliberations
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Bioarchaeology and the Ethics of Research Using Human Skeletal Remains
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Bone Considerations: Archaeology, Heritage, and Ethics at Mamila, Jerusalem
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Book Review Essay (Archaeological Ethics [Vitelli, K. D. 1996]; Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership [Renfrew, C. 2000]; Debating the Archaeological Heritage [Skeates, R. 2000]
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Book Review Essay: Perspectives on the Philosophical Foundations of Archaeological Ethics
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Boots on the ground in Africa’s ancient DNA ‘revolution’: archaeological perspectives on ethics and best practices
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Burial archaeology: reflections on the law, policy and ethics of research on human remains and ‘digging the dead’
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Can less be more? Heritage in the age of terrorism
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Commitment, Objectivity and Accountability to Communities: Priorities for 21st Century Archaeology
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Complex Legal Legacies: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Scientific Study, and Kennewick Man
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Concepts of community in the pursuit of an inclusive archaeology
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Contextualizing Ethics: Comments on Ethics in Canadian Archaeology by Robert Rosenswig
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Contract Archaeology in Europe: An Experiment in Diversity
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Contract archaeology in South Africa: some ethical concerns
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Copyrighting the Past?: Emerging Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Archaeology
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Cultural heritage management, ethics and rock art in Western Australia
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Cultural Resources on the New England Coast and Continental Shelf: Research, Regulatory, and Ethical Considerations from a Massachusetts Perspective
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Decolonising the museum: the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC
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Decolonizing Indigenous Archaeology: Developments from down Under
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Development-led archaeology and ethics in Lesotho
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Digging and Destruction: Artifact Collecting as Meaningful Social Practice
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Do you even know what public archaeology is? Trends, theory, practice, ethics
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Dwelling at the margins, action at the intersection? Feminist and indigenous archaeologies, 2005
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Edge of an Ethical Dilemma
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Epilogue: Perspectives on Community Archaeology
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Ethical Challenges in Digital Public Archaeology
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Ethical Considerations in Anthropology and Archaeology, or Relativism and Justice for All
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Ethical Principles and Archaeological Practice: Development of an Ethics Policy
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Ethics and Archaeological Tourism in Latin America
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Ethics and Archaeology: The Attempt at Çatalhöyük
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Ethics and Contract Archaeology
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Ethics and Ownership of the Past: The Reburial and Repatriation Controversy
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Ethics and the Archaeology of Human Remains
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Ethics and Value Conflicts: An Examination of Archaeologists’ Responses to Questionnaire Scenarios
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Ethics in African archaeology
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Ethics in Canadian Archaeology: An International, Comparative Analysis
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Ethics in Field Archaeology
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Ethics of Archaeology
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Ethics, Archaeological Resource Management And Federal Legislation: A Few Thoughts For The Direction Of Canadian Archaeology
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Ethics, Archaeology and World Archaeological Congress
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Étiqua de la Arqueología
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Exhibiting Archaeology: Archaeology and Museums
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Feminisms, queer theories, and the archaeological study of past sexualities
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Field Archaeologists as Eyewitnesses to Site Looting
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Forum: Ethical Issues in European Professional Archaeology
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From “Public Archaeologist” to “Public Intellectual”: Seeking Engagement Opportunities Outside Traditional Archaeological Arenas
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Genetics, ethics and archaeology
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Gridlock: UNESCO, global conflict and failed ambitions
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How Archaeologists and Artifact Collectors Can—and Should—Collaborate to Comply with Legal and Ethical Antiquities Codes
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Intellectual Property Rights and Ethics in Archaeology
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Introduction: de-centring ethical assumptions by re-centring ethical debate in African archaeology
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Knowledge about archaeological field schools in Africa: the Tanzanian experience
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Lies, damned lies, and archaeologists: Antiquities trafficking research as criminology and the ethics of identification
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Looting and the World’s Archaeological Heritage: The Inadequate Response
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Mare Nostrum? Ethics and Archaeology in Mediterranean Waters
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW): Bringing Awareness through the Power of Student Activism
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Museum Education and Archaeological Ethics: An Approach to the Illicit Trade of Antiquities
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Obstacles to Career Progression in Archaeology: Precarious Labour and Unemployment
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On Intellectual Property Rights and Archaeology
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On mtDNA and Archaeological EthicsOn mtDNA and Archaeological Ethics
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Past responsibility: History and the ethics of research on ethnic groups.
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Private property, public archaeology: resident communities as stakeholders in American archaeology
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Professionalism in Historical Archaeology
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Public archaeology, knowledge meetings and heritage ethics in southern Africa: an approach from Mozambique
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Public Heritage, a Desire for a “White” History for America, and Some Impacts of the Kennewick Man/ Ancient One Decision
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Reclaiming Space at Red Hill Camp: Community Archaeology with Urban Indigenous Groups
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Rethinking Anthropological Studies of the Body: Manas and Bdham in Kerala.
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Revisiting History’s Cenotaphs: The “Common Man” and Ethics of Commemoration in Conflict Archaeology
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Seizing Intellectual Power: The dialogue at the New York African burial ground
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Service Learning in Archaeology and its Impact on Perceptions of Cultural Heritage and Historic Preservation
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Should I stay or should I go? Ideals and realities of archaeology in the conflict regions.
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Some New Proposals for Ethics in Archaeology
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Some Reflections on the Work of the SAA Committee for Ethics in Archaeology
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Supply, Demand and a Failure of Understanding: Addressing the Culture Clash between Archaeologists’ Expectations for Training and Employment in ‘Academia’ versus ‘Practice’
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The Ethics of Collaboration: Archaeologists and the Whydah Project
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The ethics of displaying human remains from British archaeological sites
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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: A New Beginning, Not the End, for Osteological Analysis–A Hopi Perspective
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The New York African Burial Ground Project: Past biases, current dilemmas and future research opportunities
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The repatriation of human remains – problem or opportunity?
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The Transatlantic Trade in African Ancestors: Mijikenda Memorial Statues (Vigango) and the Ethics of Collecting and Curating Non-Western Cultural Property
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Through Wary Eyes: Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology
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To Excavate an Ethics from Archaeology
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Toward “True Acts of Inclusion”: The “Here” and the “Out There” Concepts in Public Archaeology
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Toward a Code of Ethics for Archaeological Practice in the Palestinian National Territories
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Towards A Definition And Practice Of Communal Archaeology: Ethics, Informal Learning, And Citizen Ccience In The Practice Of Indigenous Archaeology
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Towards an Inclusive Queer Archaeology: An Overview and Introduction
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Two Cultures in the Times of Interdisciplinary Archaeology: A Response to Commentators
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Under-representation in Contemporary Archaeology
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UNESCO, URI, and Archaeology in the Deep Blue Sea: Archaeological Ethics and Archaeological Oceanography
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Virtue ethics and the practice of history: Native Americans and archaeologists along the San Pedro Valley of Arizona
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War-time academic professionalism
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We Have Never Been Latourian: Archaeological Ethics and the Posthuman Condition
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What Are Archaeological Ethics? [Commentary]
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When Past and Present Collide: The Ethics of Archaeological Stewardship
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Who is deterministic? On the nature of interdisciplinary research in archaeology
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Why Queer Archaeology? An Introduction
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Without Ethics and Morality: A Historical Overview of Imperial Archaeology and American Indians