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History: the story of the past.
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Herodotus: father of history.
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Archive: documents.
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Museum: artefacts.
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Sources can be written, pictorial, oral, artefacts or ruins.
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Primary sources: directly from past, first hand information, from the time.
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Secondary sources: indirectly, second hand, after the time.
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Bias: using only the evidence that supports one side.
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Prejudice: judging before any evidence.
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Propaganda: using the media to promote one point of view.
Fact vs Opinion
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Archaeology is the study of buildings and artefacts.
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Finding the sites: Aerial photography (crop marks)
- Stories (Troy)
- Rescue archaeology (roads and buildings)
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Excavations:
- Survey
- Diggers (topsoil)
- Map
- Sieves and brushes
- Numbering artefacts
- Laboratory
- Dating: Stratigraphy
- Coins and pottery
- Dendrochronology
- Radiocarbon dating