“…This lack of clarity on legal frameworks and lidar scanning means that meta-archaeological analyses are particularly important for assessing archaeological lidar data collection, access, and publication. Broadly situated in earlier literature on the socio-politics and philosophy of archaeological practice (Conkey & Spector, 1984 ; Gero, 1985 ; Trigger, 2006 ; Wylie, 2002 ), meta-archaeological analyses have examined, for example, who is awarded major research funding (Goldstein et al, 2018 ), sexual and other forms of harassment within the field (Clancy et al, 2014 ; Meyers et al, 2018 ; Voss, 2021a , 2021b ), who is publishing in archaeology (Bardolph, 2014 ; Heath-Stout, 2020 ; Tushingham et al, 2017 ), and where they are publishing (Beck et al, 2021 ). Within geospatial archaeology, studies have assessed the number of overall publications in terms of geographical origin and topic (Agapiou & Lysandrou, 2015 ; McCoy, 2021 ), and ethical considerations in remote sensing (Cohen et al, 2020 ; Davis & Sanger, 2021 ; Fernandez-Diaz et al, 2018 ; Kersel & Hill, 2019 ).…”