Two things in regards to this:  1) if you do not own the report
it would be presumptuous to change it (perhaps the best course is
to notify the client/owner of any egregious error, and possibly
the SHPO also?); 2) if the report is reviewed and accepted it is
a legal document and to make changes after that poses issues of
another sort (which is another reason to simply inform the
client/owner)..

William  Lees


-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Carl Steen
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:28 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Past work

In a message dated 12/1/2004 7:20:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
What if any responsibility does a CRM professional
(archaeologist, architectural historian, etc.) have for old
reports? For instance, if it becomes clear that parts of a report
were incorrect, is there any obligation to publish an errata?

James H. Brothers IV, RPA
If so I, for one, have a lot of work to do!!!

But really, what can you do? I have corrected phase ii errors in
the phase III report, and edited errors out when I reprinted
things. But it wouldn't be possible to go back and, with the
wisdom of experience and hindsight, fix EVERYTHING...

Carl Steen