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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT...
1. FINDING OUT ABOUT THE PAST
History: the story of the past.
Herodotus: father of history.
Prehistory: before written history
Archive: documents
Museum: artefacts are kept here
Sources can be written, pictorial, oral, artefacts or ruins.
Primary sources: directly from past, first hand information, from the time.
Secondary sources: indirectly, second hand, after the time
Bias: using only the evidence that supports one side.
Prejudice: judging before any evidence.
Propaganda: using the media to promote one point of view.
Fact v Opinion: what happened V what you think may have happened
Archaeology is the study of buildings and artefacts.
Finding the sites: Aerial photography (crop marks)
Stories (Troy)
Rescue archaeology (roads and buildings)
Excavations: Survey
Diggers (topsoil)
Map
Sieves and brushes
Numbering artefacts
Laboratory
Dating: Stratigraphy
Coins and pottery
Dendrochronology
Radiocarbon dating
History: the story of the past.
Herodotus: father of history.
Prehistory: before written history
Archive: documents
Museum: artefacts are kept here
Sources can be written, pictorial, oral, artefacts or ruins.
Primary sources: directly from past, first hand information, from the time.
Secondary sources: indirectly, second hand, after the time
Bias: using only the evidence that supports one side.
Prejudice: judging before any evidence.
Propaganda: using the media to promote one point of view.
Fact v Opinion: what happened V what you think may have happened
Archaeology is the study of buildings and artefacts.
Finding the sites: Aerial photography (crop marks)
Stories (Troy)
Rescue archaeology (roads and buildings)
Excavations: Survey
Diggers (topsoil)
Map
Sieves and brushes
Numbering artefacts
Laboratory
Dating: Stratigraphy
Coins and pottery
Dendrochronology
Radiocarbon dating