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1 WORK OF A HISTORIAN 1 st Year History

2 Herodotus: father of history Greek Historian Written History, using papyrus

3 Prehistory Before written sources.

4 Archive: Place where written documents are kept

5 Museum: Place where artefacts (items used in the past) are kept.

6 Sources Can be: Written, Pictorial, Oral, Artefacts Ruins.

7 Primary sources: Directly from past, first hand information, from the time

8 Secondary sources: Indirectly, second hand, after the time.

9 Fact v Opinion Bias: using only the evidence that supports one side. Prejudice: judging before any evidence. Propaganda: using the media to promote one point of view.

10 Archaeology The study of buildings and artefacts. Finding the sites: Aerial photography (crop marks) Stories (Troy) Rescue archaeology (roads and buildings)

11 Excavations: Survey Diggers (topsoil) Map Sieves and brushes Numbering artefacts Laboratory

12 Dating: Stratigraphy Coins and pottery Dendrochronology Radiocarbon dating


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