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| For discussion at EAA 15 (2009) and WAC 7 (2012): Scholar Fraud, Ethics, Law and Cultural Heritage from the Perspectives of Archaeology as a Humanistic Discipline |
© 2008-2009 International Institute of Anthropology
© 2008-2009 Lolita Nikolova, PhD
© 2008-2009 Lolita Nikolova, PhD
External link:
Anti-fraud International
http://antifraudintl.org/
Resources: Archaeology, Collaboration, and Ethics
http://archaeology-ce.info/resources.html
Last updated: 03-13-09
Original idea: Lolita Nikolova
Contact e-mail: lnikolova@iianthropology.org
Preliminary note: It is such a good luck for me to be an archaeologist! In this field I have met the most wonderful people in the world. But it occurs that the
archaeology has been also invaded my people who do not have humanistic goals and their behavior contrast to all academic and humanistic principals.
And such people are not visibly negative personalities. They can be for while even your closest friends because we, the archaeologists, in principal accept
everybody friendly. Should we make the distance bigger between us, or just we need to change something? Our history of society and especially of the
American democratic society shows that there is only one way to develop the progress - to keep and develop integrity and immediately to reveal the
corruption. There is a problem in archaeology - the network of invisibly connected people who has been using any sorts of means to prevent in many cases
the truth to come out, who have been using the academic life and publications for personal non-academic goals. Such people that we can name scholar
negators, can slow but cannot stop the progress because usually they gain only temporary success. The whole human history is a history of a society in
which always dominates the progress - because there are always smart people who know what to learn from history and how to fight for progress.
Abstract:
The topic is a result of some most recent archaeological publications in which authors purposefully had hidden basic literature, misleading the readers,
misinterpreting scholar works and even publishing suspicious archaeological information. In addition, today it looks we you can print for instance, in
Romania but to write printed in the USA. Some social practices depart from the ethical rules of WAC and EAA. What to do and how to save the professional
archaeology? What should be the self-awareness of archaeologists?
Equally important today is the question: Who in fact saves the archaeological heritage? It concerns the way the museums and scholars react on the
attempts the social and cultural spaces to be occupied not by exhibits of prestige and well documented finds, but by finds without clear provenance and
source of origin. Does such tendency, an example of which is the traveling finds from the private collection of Vassil Bozhkov, correspond to the
understanding of the archaeological treasures and as common human heritage or just stimulate treasure-hunters, the "black" archaeology and corruption in
society.
Reference to fraud and society:
David Cerny and his Entropa exhibit in Brussels
Internal link: Scandal with the exhibit of David Cerny in Brussels
http://www.iianthropology.org/bgdavidcerny
Alexa Allows Constitutional Rights To Be Violated, by Paul Coonan at
http://www.rense.com/general49/const.htm Fraud and Government
http://www.8009endfraud.com/?gclid=COfQgfejpZcCFQ0xawodCWcmow
Internet Surfers Alliance Against Fraud at
http://www.acronymfinder.com/Internet-Surfers-Alliance-Against-Fraud-(ISAAF).html
Reference to Academic Fraud
It starts from the student bench:
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/info/regist/fraud_e.html
including misrepresenting an academic evaluation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dishonesty
Links:
http://iberry.com/cms/Fraud.htm
References to the exhibit of Vassil Bozhkov in Brussels:
http://www.iianthropology.org/antigrandeurofbulgaria
Some other readings:
H.P. Blavatsky Collected Writings, Volume 13 Page 138
THE NEGATORS OF SCIENCE [Lucifer, Vol. VIII, No. 44, April, 1891, pp. 89-98]
On this webpage will be gathered data about the topic. In preparations are data about the following case studies under investigation but with clear signs of
scholar and publishing fraud:
Bisserka Gaydarska and her book Landscape, Material culture and Society in Prehistoric South East Bulgaria (BAR International Series 1618, 2007)
(Review notes)
I am waiting for the response from Ms Bisserka Gaydarska to answer me the following questions sent by e-mail on July 21st 2008.
Meanwhile immediate responses (July 23rd 2008) were received by Professor Robin Coningham (the Head of the Archaeology Department at the University
of Durham) and Dr Mark White (Active Head of Archaeology Department at the University of Durham) who informed me that Ms Bisserka Gaydarska was on
field and would not be back before September when the case could be researched. In second e-mail Professor Coningham did not answer the posed
questions. Initially I thought to send a letter, but a web information was published about Ms Bisserka Gaydarska that she is a regular attendee of the EAA
Meeting, so in a special e-mail Durham was informed that I will wait the EAA meeting in Trento to try to ask Ms Bisserka Gaydarska directly my questions.
My questions to Ms Bisserka Gaydarska>
1. Who is the responsible editor of her book?
2. Did she use my book "The Balkans in Later Prehistory" (BAR 1999). If so, why was it not cited? If not - why if it covers her region of investigations and how
she made the statement in p. 10: Bronze Age investigations in Bulgaria suffer a great lack of general studies in comparing to the preceding periods.
3. How does she understand ethics in archaeology?
4. Did I ever reject her any consultations about Bronze Age in Bulgaria? Did she ask me about this period?
E-mails were also sent to the Head of the Department of Archaeology, University of Durham for clarification of the case and for a commission who should
compare both books Balkans in Later Prehistory and Landscape, Material Culture and Society in Prehistoric South East Bulgaria and to answer if the
dissertation, respectively the book by Bisserka Gaydarska is as academic violence (She e is honorary staff member of the Department of Archaeology that
means that she has an access to students) if the author obviously used the book but had not cited.
While we are waiting for a response from Durham, some points regarding the book that may explain while the culmination is a scholar fraud:
While waiting for a response from Durham, we will make some points regarding the book of Dr Bisserka Gaydarska (BAR 1618, 2007):
1. There are missing titles in the books which were either obviously read under the table, or were not known despite are the most basic for the topic: the
study on Balkan Prehistoric chronology by Y. Boyadzhiev and J. Görsdorf, the big Doctor thesis of Anna Raduncheva on the prehistoric society from Bulgaria,
and most curiously – even my book in collaboration with Cristian Schuster and Igor Manzura, The Balkans in Later Prehistory. Another comic moment - the
author states that Krassimir Leshtakov has just recently preparing study on Bronze Age while he has a published comparative study for Southeast Bulgaria
which is also on the list of the obligatory references.
2. There are no correlations between the data from the variety of sources used which is obligatory for any PhD thesis. The published pages are like pieces
cut from different cakes and put in a box – no homogeneous scholar story with theses, arguments and conclusions.
3. The goals and objectives in the book are not covered by the text and from the beginning they look impossible to be realized.
4. There is missing a Catalogue in this book, which looks non-academic in light of the increased request for high quality of the archaeological literature. It is
just impossible a regional study without a Catalogue of the sites.
5. I even could not find any map of the archaeological sites researched in the book. Some maps include Cyrillic names of sites and cannot be correlated
with each other even if you know Bulgarian.
See review notes at http://www.iianthropology.org/iialibrarybigaydarska
Vassil Nikolov and Culture and Art in Prehistoric Thrace (Letera, Plovdiv 2006)
Questions were sent to Letera Publishers but no response was received. On the phone on of the clerks told me that the book by Vassil Nikolov was
sponsored by Letera. We have been still waiting for answer.
Martin Hristov and his publication in Archaeology about Dubene-Balinov Gorun
The story is very popular and well known from Corruption in Society.
Anti-fraud International
http://antifraudintl.org/
Resources: Archaeology, Collaboration, and Ethics
http://archaeology-ce.info/resources.html
Last updated: 03-13-09
Original idea: Lolita Nikolova
Contact e-mail: lnikolova@iianthropology.org
Preliminary note: It is such a good luck for me to be an archaeologist! In this field I have met the most wonderful people in the world. But it occurs that the
archaeology has been also invaded my people who do not have humanistic goals and their behavior contrast to all academic and humanistic principals.
And such people are not visibly negative personalities. They can be for while even your closest friends because we, the archaeologists, in principal accept
everybody friendly. Should we make the distance bigger between us, or just we need to change something? Our history of society and especially of the
American democratic society shows that there is only one way to develop the progress - to keep and develop integrity and immediately to reveal the
corruption. There is a problem in archaeology - the network of invisibly connected people who has been using any sorts of means to prevent in many cases
the truth to come out, who have been using the academic life and publications for personal non-academic goals. Such people that we can name scholar
negators, can slow but cannot stop the progress because usually they gain only temporary success. The whole human history is a history of a society in
which always dominates the progress - because there are always smart people who know what to learn from history and how to fight for progress.
Abstract:
The topic is a result of some most recent archaeological publications in which authors purposefully had hidden basic literature, misleading the readers,
misinterpreting scholar works and even publishing suspicious archaeological information. In addition, today it looks we you can print for instance, in
Romania but to write printed in the USA. Some social practices depart from the ethical rules of WAC and EAA. What to do and how to save the professional
archaeology? What should be the self-awareness of archaeologists?
Equally important today is the question: Who in fact saves the archaeological heritage? It concerns the way the museums and scholars react on the
attempts the social and cultural spaces to be occupied not by exhibits of prestige and well documented finds, but by finds without clear provenance and
source of origin. Does such tendency, an example of which is the traveling finds from the private collection of Vassil Bozhkov, correspond to the
understanding of the archaeological treasures and as common human heritage or just stimulate treasure-hunters, the "black" archaeology and corruption in
society.
Reference to fraud and society:
David Cerny and his Entropa exhibit in Brussels
Internal link: Scandal with the exhibit of David Cerny in Brussels
http://www.iianthropology.org/bgdavidcerny
Alexa Allows Constitutional Rights To Be Violated, by Paul Coonan at
http://www.rense.com/general49/const.htm Fraud and Government
http://www.8009endfraud.com/?gclid=COfQgfejpZcCFQ0xawodCWcmow
Internet Surfers Alliance Against Fraud at
http://www.acronymfinder.com/Internet-Surfers-Alliance-Against-Fraud-(ISAAF).html
Reference to Academic Fraud
It starts from the student bench:
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/info/regist/fraud_e.html
including misrepresenting an academic evaluation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dishonesty
Links:
http://iberry.com/cms/Fraud.htm
References to the exhibit of Vassil Bozhkov in Brussels:
http://www.iianthropology.org/antigrandeurofbulgaria
Some other readings:
H.P. Blavatsky Collected Writings, Volume 13 Page 138
THE NEGATORS OF SCIENCE [Lucifer, Vol. VIII, No. 44, April, 1891, pp. 89-98]
On this webpage will be gathered data about the topic. In preparations are data about the following case studies under investigation but with clear signs of
scholar and publishing fraud:
Bisserka Gaydarska and her book Landscape, Material culture and Society in Prehistoric South East Bulgaria (BAR International Series 1618, 2007)
(Review notes)
I am waiting for the response from Ms Bisserka Gaydarska to answer me the following questions sent by e-mail on July 21st 2008.
Meanwhile immediate responses (July 23rd 2008) were received by Professor Robin Coningham (the Head of the Archaeology Department at the University
of Durham) and Dr Mark White (Active Head of Archaeology Department at the University of Durham) who informed me that Ms Bisserka Gaydarska was on
field and would not be back before September when the case could be researched. In second e-mail Professor Coningham did not answer the posed
questions. Initially I thought to send a letter, but a web information was published about Ms Bisserka Gaydarska that she is a regular attendee of the EAA
Meeting, so in a special e-mail Durham was informed that I will wait the EAA meeting in Trento to try to ask Ms Bisserka Gaydarska directly my questions.
My questions to Ms Bisserka Gaydarska>
1. Who is the responsible editor of her book?
2. Did she use my book "The Balkans in Later Prehistory" (BAR 1999). If so, why was it not cited? If not - why if it covers her region of investigations and how
she made the statement in p. 10: Bronze Age investigations in Bulgaria suffer a great lack of general studies in comparing to the preceding periods.
3. How does she understand ethics in archaeology?
4. Did I ever reject her any consultations about Bronze Age in Bulgaria? Did she ask me about this period?
E-mails were also sent to the Head of the Department of Archaeology, University of Durham for clarification of the case and for a commission who should
compare both books Balkans in Later Prehistory and Landscape, Material Culture and Society in Prehistoric South East Bulgaria and to answer if the
dissertation, respectively the book by Bisserka Gaydarska is as academic violence (She e is honorary staff member of the Department of Archaeology that
means that she has an access to students) if the author obviously used the book but had not cited.
While we are waiting for a response from Durham, some points regarding the book that may explain while the culmination is a scholar fraud:
While waiting for a response from Durham, we will make some points regarding the book of Dr Bisserka Gaydarska (BAR 1618, 2007):
1. There are missing titles in the books which were either obviously read under the table, or were not known despite are the most basic for the topic: the
study on Balkan Prehistoric chronology by Y. Boyadzhiev and J. Görsdorf, the big Doctor thesis of Anna Raduncheva on the prehistoric society from Bulgaria,
and most curiously – even my book in collaboration with Cristian Schuster and Igor Manzura, The Balkans in Later Prehistory. Another comic moment - the
author states that Krassimir Leshtakov has just recently preparing study on Bronze Age while he has a published comparative study for Southeast Bulgaria
which is also on the list of the obligatory references.
2. There are no correlations between the data from the variety of sources used which is obligatory for any PhD thesis. The published pages are like pieces
cut from different cakes and put in a box – no homogeneous scholar story with theses, arguments and conclusions.
3. The goals and objectives in the book are not covered by the text and from the beginning they look impossible to be realized.
4. There is missing a Catalogue in this book, which looks non-academic in light of the increased request for high quality of the archaeological literature. It is
just impossible a regional study without a Catalogue of the sites.
5. I even could not find any map of the archaeological sites researched in the book. Some maps include Cyrillic names of sites and cannot be correlated
with each other even if you know Bulgarian.
See review notes at http://www.iianthropology.org/iialibrarybigaydarska
Vassil Nikolov and Culture and Art in Prehistoric Thrace (Letera, Plovdiv 2006)
Questions were sent to Letera Publishers but no response was received. On the phone on of the clerks told me that the book by Vassil Nikolov was
sponsored by Letera. We have been still waiting for answer.
Martin Hristov and his publication in Archaeology about Dubene-Balinov Gorun
The story is very popular and well known from Corruption in Society.
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