12th April 2011, 10:01 AM
archaeologists, by defiinition, refer to the work of others at every stage of their work, whether it be filling out a context sheet or writing a report in any format you choose to mention. if they haven't, then in all likelyhood they are not doing archaeology - by definition. free and liberal reference to the work of others, with commensurate acknowledgement, is the mainstay of archaeological theory and practice and archaeology would be ruined without it