. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. into India. There are even, incredibly enough, fake cover expeditions: ones which claim to be doing important espionage vi^ork while actually doing archeological research. The only definite case of this happened quite recently when a publicity-conscious American excavator announced that routes mapped by his expedition were responsible for the success of the Israeli blitzkrieg in 1967. That he was exaggerating slightly—in these days of aerial photogrammetric mapping, ground surveying by amateurs is almost useless militarily—does not alter the fact that he t
. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. into India. There are even, incredibly enough, fake cover expeditions: ones which claim to be doing important espionage vi^ork while actually doing archeological research. The only definite case of this happened quite recently when a publicity-conscious American excavator announced that routes mapped by his expedition were responsible for the success of the Israeli blitzkrieg in 1967. That he was exaggerating slightly—in these days of aerial photogrammetric mapping, ground surveying by amateurs is almost useless militarily—does not alter the fact that he thought of himself as a spy or that he thought by claiming he was a spy he could raise more money for future excavations. The man was a fool. By his actions he has seriously compromised the integrity of his profession in the eyes of many persons in that part of the world. Security-conscious nations can hardly be blamed for restricting or excluding foreign researchers when there is any likelihood that those researchers will turn out to be more interested in military secrets than in scientific ones. Archeological neo-imperialists Somewhat more common than the excavating espionage agent is the Ugly Archeologist: the field worker who, through natural aptitude or an old-fashioned style of training, preserves the characteristic attitudes of the days when most archeology was done in colonies by colonialists. These neo-imperialist archeologists can be recognized by several distinctive hallmarks. One IS the fact that their expeditions tend. to have large foreign staffs (twenty or even thirty people is not an unheard-of number) who take charge of all the white-collar work of the excavation—the supervising, recording, and analyzing of finds. The leaders of such expeditions recruit their staffs from their own or from other Western countries, perhaps because they feel that the local people are not capable of doing any of the expedition's tasks except the picking and shoveling. From thi
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