Data Interpretation and Public Engagement, AAI/Open Context. Registrar, RPA. Opinions on #digiarch, #archaeogaming, #ethics & #archaeology, all mine. (She/Her)
Apr 15, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The group of archaeologists who are excavating the Roman site everyone is gushing about is the same group who excavated the amazing chariot burial- the one with the horses. But you wouldn’t know that, because non-academic field archaeologists get no public credit for their work.
As a discipline, we need to have a serious conversation about the ethics of how academic archaeology benefits from the unacknowledged labor of commercial field archaeologists.