Too few of our colleagues seem to know how to do this as it is, and the last thing we need is to discourage those like Dillehay et al., who do. The problems Fiedel has raised about artifact provenience at Monte Verde are serious, and must be formally addressed point by point. They mandate that the authors, in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution Press, release a second, fully corrected edition to Monte Verde as soon as possible. A web site posting of errata, as Dillehay et al. suggest, is simply not sufficient. Fiedel himself, in fact, should be invited to review and comment on the second edition.
Scholarship demands no less on the part of the parties involved.
The good thing about science is that it is self-correcting. What we are seeing here is how that process works.