•WORK OF A HISTORIAN

1st Year History

•Herodotus: father of history

Greek Historian

Written History, using papyrus

•Prehistory

• Before written sources.

•Archive:

• Place where written documents are kept

•Museum:

• Place where artefacts (items used in the past) are kept.

•Sources

• Can be:• Written, • Pictorial, • Oral, • Artefacts• Ruins.

•Primary sources:

• Directly from past, first hand information, from the time

•Secondary sources:

• Indirectly, second hand, after the time.

•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.

•Archaeology

• 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