Eldon Yellowhorn
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA 2017
- Eldon Yellowhorn Researcher in archaeology and archaeoastronomy. He is interested in the interactions between Indians and archaeology and contributes to the emerging field of indigenous archeology. As a researcher in Native Studies he has focuses on examining Aboriginal peoples’ experience in the modern world and their struggle to promote cultural diversity in a homogeneous society. He is currently researching traditional knowledge, its meaning and significance to better understand the archaeological record. He uses traditional knowledge as a method for explaining archaeological sites and for interpreting sites that lack artifacts. He considers traditional knowledge as a system of knowledge of the environment and researches in the field of ethnoscience.