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Editors’ Page: Defining Ethics

When morality becomes moralism

By Hershel Shanks

In Editor’s Page: The Two Faces of AIA, Managing Editor Jack Meinhardt wrote about a young scholar who was told he would have to resign from our Editorial Advisory Board if he wanted to serve in any official capacity with the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Moreover, his career would be hurt, so he was told, if he maintained an official connection with Archaeology Odyssey. Since then, the AIA’s position has been clarified. Members of its Governing Board must sign a pledge that they will abide by the AIA’s Code of Ethics. That is why, in order to be […]

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The AIA’s Code of Ethics defines undocumented antiquities as follows: “Undocumented antiquities are those which are mot documented as belonging to a public or private collection before December 30, 1970, when the AIA Council endorsed the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property, or which have not be excavated and exported from the country of origin in accordance with the laws of that country.