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By K. Kris Hirst, About.com Guide to Archaeology since 1997

Archaeological Ethics: A Book Review

Sunday June 17, 2007
The 2006 collection of articles edited by Karen Vitelli and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh called Archaeological Ethics (second edition) contains a broad range of ideas about the past and what justice demands of archaeologists and the public they serve. The articles, taken from general public magazines such as Archaeology and American Archaeology, cover looting, NAGPRA, the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, and other issues; most of the articles are new to this edition, which would make a suitable textbook for any college classroom, or a resource for anybody interested in the subject of ethics and how it pertains to the archaeologist.

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