A journal’s image restrictions aim to boost ties with tribes, but critics fear loss of academic freedom
Indigenous scholars objected to publishing photos of funerary objects excavated from an earthen mound complex at Florida’s Crystal River Archaeological State Park., Rob Beck helped choose a cover photo for the penultimate issue of 2020. It showed about 20 ceramic vessels, some painted with colorful patterns. They had been excavated in the early 1900s from the Crystal River Archaeological State Park in Florida, home to some of the region’s oldest ancient Indigenous earthworks.
Avoiding such images is crucial for some Indigenous people. “Funerary objects are sacred and part of the ancestor they were buried with,” says RaeLynn Butler, citizen of the Muscogee Nation and historic and cultural preservation manager for her tribe. Many tribal members say seeing images of ancestral remains and funerary objects is a violation so profound it can induce physical illness.
Archaeologists on both sides of the debate agree consulting tribes is an ethical imperative and often improves research. But Steponaitis says scholars ranging from Ph.D. candidates to emeritus professors told him they worried that under the new image policy, their work could no longer be published by their society’s flagship journal, and that yearslong projects could be suddenly stalled. What is considered ethical is changing so fast that “the goalposts are moving from week to week,” he says.
If the restrictions spread, they could hamper education and even preservation, worries Jessica Fleming Crawford, the southeast regional director for the Archaeological Conservancy and a SEAC member who signed the petition. Students who don’t see funerary objects in the classroom might not recognize them during salvage work, she says. “I’ve walked around so many sites surrounded by destruction,” she says. “I want us to have the best archaeologists out there working for and with tribes.
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