Comment by arp242

> I'm disgusted by the convention that findings are controlled by self-interested glory-seeking finders

The basic idea makes sense; you spend a lot of time, effort, money, and sometimes personal risk to excavate these things. You should be given a chance to actually benefit from all this work.

But within reason, and obviously here someone abused a common-sense convention in a way that is hard to distinguish from outright bad faith behaviour.

In my opinion, the major failing here is from the university in not stepping in a bit more forcefully to deal with this.