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What is the historic period.

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The historic period is when people recorded time. (used writing)

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What is the prehistoric period?

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The prehistoric period is before recorded time. (Before writing was used)

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what is a source?

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A source is evidence that helps build up a picture of the past.

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What are the two types of sources?

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Primary sources and secondary sources.

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What is a primary source?

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A primary source is a source directly from the event.

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What is a secondary source?

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A secondary source is a source not directly from the event.

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What are some examples of primary and secondary sources?

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Primary source- Diaries, autobiographies, artefacts, photographs.
Secondary source- Biographies, movies, history books.

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What are some places that sources are stored in?

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Archives, libraries and museums.

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What is the time and place rule?

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The time and place rule is examining how close the source was to the event.

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What is cross-checking?

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Cross-checking is making sure the history of the past is as accurate as possible.

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What is bias?

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Bias is when one source favours one side or another.

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What is exaggeration?

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Exaggeration is making an event appear greater than it really is.

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What is propaganda?

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Propaganda is a source to influence people’s opinions.

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What is a census?

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A census is a form sent to every household every four years to document the population.

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What are artefacts?

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Artefacts are man-made objects of significance from the past found in the ground.

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How do objects end up in the ground?

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  • Some are lost.
  • In pre-Christian times, goods were buried with the dead.
  • Buildings were abandoned and got covered in soil over time.
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What is research archaeology?

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Research archaeology is when a site is chosen because there is evidence that a site is there.

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What is rescue archaeology?

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Rescue archaeology is making sure no objects of significance are in the ground before a road or building is made.

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How are sites chosen?

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Research archaeology, rescue archaeology and by accident.

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What is the process of excavation?

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First they take a geophysical survey (scanning the ground), then they dig test trenches. Next, they take aerial photographs and then a plan is made.

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What are tools archaeologists used for excavation?

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Trowels, handpicks, brushes, sieves and toothbrushes.

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What happens once an object is found?

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A photograph is taken.

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what are ways of dating artefacts?

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Stratigraphy, radiocarbon or carbon dating, dendrochronology.

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What is stratigraphy?

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stratigraphy is the dating of objects by the depth at which they are found.

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What is carbon dating?

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Carbon dating is used to find the age of objects that lived by examining how much carbon is present.

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What is dendrochronology?

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Dendrochronology is the study of the age of a wooden object through tree-ring dating. (Counting the rings in the tree.)

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what can archaeologists learn from a skeleton?

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Gender, height, age, cause of death