You must look to your own consience - you clearly have one in raising the
question in the first place. I admire your honesty and sincerely hope it
doesn't bring you to a bad end. Having been a powerless free-lance for 25
years oin British arcaheology has exposed me to huge amounts of ****,
unethical behaviour and sheer hypoocricy from my salaried and tenred
colleagues. Tends to suggest a relationship between ethcial behaviour and
power. Long live Foucault. All archaeologists make mistakes, most don't
admit to them and few correct them. As for an ethical consensuses they can
be used to justify genocide -and didn't an anthropologist think up
lebensraum (so no one write in saying we are all saints).

paul courtney


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Brothers" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: Past work


> But not if it is someone elses report. I have no qualms about
> correcting my own work. In fact I feel it is my professional
> responsibility. I guess I'm trying to find out if I am alone in feeling
> this way or if there is an ethical consensus.
>
> On Dec 3, 2004, at 11:12 AM, Lauren Cook wrote:
>
>> If the error is that serious, and the site that important, you could
>> correct
>> it in a published article about the site.  (Not an article published
>> for the
>> SOLE purpose of the correction, of course.)  Anyone researching that
>> type of
>> site would be more likely to rely on the published (and later)
>> information
>> in their research.
>>
>> Lauren J. Cook, RPA
>> Senior Archaeologist
>> Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc.
>> 30 North Main Street
>> Cranbury, NJ 08512
>>