Investigating the Past
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| Source | Anything that provides evidence about our past.
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| Primary Source | Things that survive from the time being studied (providing us with first-hand/primary info) i.e. old diaries/photographs/pottery.
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| Secondary Source | Don't come from the time being studied (providing us with second-hand/secondary info) i.e. history textbook.
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| Manuscripts | Hand-written documents .i.e. diaries/letters/notebooks.
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| Pictorial Sources | Photographs,paintings and documentary films (films about actual people and events).
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| Printed Sources | Books,newspapers,magazines,maps and government documents i.e. censuses (official population counts).
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| Oral Sources | Eye-witness accounts,interview,tape recordings and radio documentary programmes.
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| Artefacts | Anything that has been made/used by people. ex. books/pottery/tools.
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| Where many historical sources are found: | Museums/archives/libraries/art galleries.
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| Prejudice | Making unfair judgments.
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| Prehistory | The time before writing was invented.
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| Biased | Unfair judgments.
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| BC | Before Christ.
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| AD | After Death.
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| Stratigraphy | Artefacts found deeper beneath the surface are older than artefacts found above them in shallower ground.
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| Carbon Dating | When a plant/animal dies, carbon begins to leak out slowly from its body. By measuring how much carbon is left in the dead plant/animal, scientists can work out approximately when the plant/animal died.
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| Pollen Analysis | Used to find out what plants grew long ago in an area. Pollen grains can sometimes survive for thousands of years and can be studied under a microscope.
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| Well-Known Archaeological Sites in Ireland: | Wood Quay(Dublin) - Viking Settlement
The Céide Fields(Mayo) - Stone Age farming site
Lough Gur(Limerick) - Stone Age Settlement
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