We Need A Way To Report Archaeological Malpractice

Archaic Inquiries
Nov 3 · 4 min read

For those who haven’t heard — it’s hard to get wifi when working in a National Forest or BLM-managed desert — there’s a big legal battle brewing in Virginia over some very serious allegations of an archaeological consultant performing… let’s be charitable and say “substandard” work.

The allegations range from using unqualified workers (read: not archaeologists) to altering the resume of the project’s managing archaeologist. Obviously, these are allegations and not proven in court, as it is early days yet, so I won’t spend a lot of time on the…

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Archaic Inquiries

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