Chapter 1: The Historian
History is the study of the past.
A historian is someone who studies history.
Prehistory is the time before writing was used. We use archaeology to help us find evidence from prehistoric times.
Archaeology is the study of the remains left by people in the past.
An archaeologist investigates places and objects of the past.
Examining history helps develop our historical consciousness, which means being able to place ourselves in past human experience, linking the past, the present and the future.
Sources - Pieces of evidence used by historians to explain why and how events in history happen.
Archaeologist - A person who studies ancient civilisations by examining items buried in the ground such as tools, bones and remains of buildings.
Primary Source - A source that come directly from the past
examples of primary source = eyewitness account of a event.
Central Statistics Office - The organisation that keeps all the information collected at each census about each citizen.
Census - An official account of the population.
Secondary Source - Evidence taken from a later date about an event,
examples of secondary source = history book, biography written about someone's life about someone else.
Bias - Is a form of prejudice an unfair preference for or dislike of something.
Propaganda - Information or rumours created and spread to influence public views about people or events.
Exaggeration - Stating that someone or something is more or less bigger or smaller better or worse than is actually so.
Chronology - The order in which events happen.
Decade - A timespan of 10 years.
Millennium - A timespan of 100 years.
Annodomini (AD) - In the year of our lord.
Artefact - Is an object of interest to a historian or archaeologist.
Geophysics - A method which allows archaeologists to look under the soil for artefacts.
Rescue/Salvage Archaeology - When archaeologists excavate an area because a new building or motorway is about to be built in that area.
Excavation/Dig - The location of a archaeologists work.
Museum
A building in which artefacts are kept in safe conditions.
Stratigraphy- A method of dating artefacts by dating the objects found at the same level in the ground.
Carbon Dating - A method of calculating the age of a object by measuring how much radioactive carbon is present in it.
Dendrochronology - A method of dating wooden objects by examining the tree ring patterns and comparing them with other records.
DNA - The substance that carries every organism's genetic information. It can be used to find out more information about skeletons and bodies that have been discovered.
Perspectives - The different ways that people look at or view something
Historical Empathy - The ability to view, understand and appreciate particular events or actions from somebody's else's point of view or perspective.
History is the study of the past.
A historian is someone who studies history.
Prehistory is the time before writing was used. We use archaeology to help us find evidence from prehistoric times.
Archaeology is the study of the remains left by people in the past.
An archaeologist investigates places and objects of the past.
Examining history helps develop our historical consciousness, which means being able to place ourselves in past human experience, linking the past, the present and the future.
Sources - Pieces of evidence used by historians to explain why and how events in history happen.
Archaeologist - A person who studies ancient civilisations by examining items buried in the ground such as tools, bones and remains of buildings.
Primary Source - A source that come directly from the past
examples of primary source = eyewitness account of a event.
Central Statistics Office - The organisation that keeps all the information collected at each census about each citizen.
Census - An official account of the population.
Secondary Source - Evidence taken from a later date about an event,
examples of secondary source = history book, biography written about someone's life about someone else.
Bias - Is a form of prejudice an unfair preference for or dislike of something.
Propaganda - Information or rumours created and spread to influence public views about people or events.
Exaggeration - Stating that someone or something is more or less bigger or smaller better or worse than is actually so.
Chronology - The order in which events happen.
Decade - A timespan of 10 years.
Millennium - A timespan of 100 years.
Annodomini (AD) - In the year of our lord.
Artefact - Is an object of interest to a historian or archaeologist.
Geophysics - A method which allows archaeologists to look under the soil for artefacts.
Rescue/Salvage Archaeology - When archaeologists excavate an area because a new building or motorway is about to be built in that area.
Excavation/Dig - The location of a archaeologists work.
Museum
A building in which artefacts are kept in safe conditions.
Stratigraphy- A method of dating artefacts by dating the objects found at the same level in the ground.
Carbon Dating - A method of calculating the age of a object by measuring how much radioactive carbon is present in it.
Dendrochronology - A method of dating wooden objects by examining the tree ring patterns and comparing them with other records.
DNA - The substance that carries every organism's genetic information. It can be used to find out more information about skeletons and bodies that have been discovered.
Perspectives - The different ways that people look at or view something
Historical Empathy - The ability to view, understand and appreciate particular events or actions from somebody's else's point of view or perspective.
