Archaeology After Archaeology

Abstract

Since the 1980s an increasing consideration of archaeological ethics replaced the former 1960s and 1970s paramount preoccupation with archaeological epistemology. Issues of good practice, restitution and repatriation, and ethics of conservation, have become a mandatory topic in the archaeological discipline. Archaeologists often assume that certain principles and/or guidelines may orient practical decisions concerning archaeological finds and/or sites, communication of research and relations with descendant communities.