... It is standard practice in scholarship to peer review papers ...
All true, Steve, and I agree that
peer review is inherently a good thing - but consider what this report is and what its function will likely be. This is a summary of what a team of volunteers gathered in one day of field work, as potentially part of a larger body of information related to our favorite piece of aluminum. It is a group of observations about a particular artifact. As such, these observations can, at best, form some of the supporting documentation for what 2-V-1-1 is, or is not. Reports of this nature don't really lend themselves to peer review because they are only a part of the whole hypothesis.
Or so it seems to me.
LTM, who finds dried paint really interesting these days,
Monty Fowler, TIGHAR No. 2189 CER