13th February 2006, 06:50 PM
A couple of points: the person accesing your reports may well be a professional or commercial rival, who could find a distinct advantage to turning someone in for creating an obviously faked report.
The other point is that archaeological data is very structured, so you can pick up when something doesnt feel right, and see where potential mistakes may lie. To actually fake data convincingly would require more effort that writing up the report properly in the first place. That is not to say that the quality of reports can't be improoved, and the opening up of the grey literature on the internet will certainly improove standards....
The other point is that archaeological data is very structured, so you can pick up when something doesnt feel right, and see where potential mistakes may lie. To actually fake data convincingly would require more effort that writing up the report properly in the first place. That is not to say that the quality of reports can't be improoved, and the opening up of the grey literature on the internet will certainly improove standards....