ArchNet Editorial Policy

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If you have a specific question regarding an archaeological topic, We recommend joining any of the Anthropology listservs or subscribing to the various usenet news groups that are available (check the list of selected Newsgroups and Listservers to find out more).

Please review our editorial policy and then register your site

The mission of ArchNet includes:

Maintaining links to presentations of archaeological materials useful for teaching and/or research.
Promoting the development of hypoermedia materials to increase public understanding of archaeology.

All sites that register with ArchNet are reviewed for content and presentation quality. We attempt to include as many related sites as possible in order to aid users in locating useful material.

However, there are three types of WWW presentations that are not appropriate for listing with ArchNet: 1) Commercial vendors, 2) Cultural Resource Management Firms, and 3) Archaeological Field Schools.

Commercial Vendors

In keeping with our mission goals, we have decided not to link commercial sites (with the exception of publishing companies). Commercial sites include hardware/software manufacturers, archaeological equipment vendors, artifact dealers, cultural resource management firms, and artifact dealers.

We will list your commercial site if you meet the following:

Products (such as software) are offered free of charge
Products and service (such as book publishers and research laboratories) that are of value in archaeological research

We suggest commercial firms announce their products on Newsgroups or Listservs or register with one of the commercial Internet Search Engines.

Cultural Resource Management Firms

ArchNet is essentially an educational site. We will not index web sites which serve primarily to advertise the services of a cultural resource management (CRM) firm or private consultant, as these are commercial services.

However, we will link to CRM sites which make available any of the following:

Hypertext versions of site reports
Archaeological data sets
Artifact type catalogues
State or local legislative documents related to historic preservation and/or archaeology

If your site does not include any of the above it will not be indexed at ArchNet. We reserve the right to point directly to content material at your site.

Archaeological Field Schools

The Internet is a great tool to announce or find an archaeological field school. However, most field school announcements have a very short shelf life and do not include detailed presentations of archaeological material. The best place to announce a field school is the Archaeological Fieldwork Server or archaeologyfieldwork.com.

ArchNet will not index field school announcements. However, we will point to sites that contain reports or other material generated by the field school program.

Artifact Dealers

ArchNet discourages the commercialization of artifacts because this activity encourages looting of archaeological sites. Further information on related issues is available at the following links:

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
The Society for American Archaeology
FAQ from ArchNet - ArchNet Policy on Requests for Appraisal and/or Sale of Artifacts/Antiquities

updated: Otober 25, 2001

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