Indigenous Collaboration in Archaeology Education

Introduction

During the last decades, several indigenous peoples and archeologists worldwide have committed themselves in the development of indigenous archaeologies. While engaging in reciprocal cooperation and exchange, they have triggered new investigation prerogatives in field research and in the interpretation and spreading of archaeological data and heritage management. Some indigenes have also acquired academic formation and became researchers of their own historical vicissitudes, assessing archaeological methods, techniques, and data storing and interpretation (Nicholas 2010). Indigenous oral history, cosmology, values, and knowledge have been incorporated within the construction of knowledge on the past. It may be said that, within their variegated manifestations, indigenous archaeologies are establishing themselves as critical and alternative approaches to traditional archaeological practices. Consequently, the parameters of archaeology education should be rethought and...