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Chapter 1
Investigating the Past
Term | Definition |
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Source | Anything that provides evidence about our past. |
Primary Source | Things that survive from the time being studied (providing us with first-hand/primary info) i.e. old diaries/photographs/pottery. |
Secondary Source | Don't come from the time being studied (providing us with second-hand/secondary info) i.e. history textbook. |
Manuscripts | Hand-written documents .i.e. diaries/letters/notebooks. |
Pictorial Sources | Photographs,paintings and documentary films (films about actual people and events). |
Printed Sources | Books,newspapers,magazines,maps and government documents i.e. censuses (official population counts). |
Oral Sources | Eye-witness accounts,interview,tape recordings and radio documentary programmes. |
Artefacts | Anything that has been made/used by people. ex. books/pottery/tools. |
Where many historical sources are found: | Museums/archives/libraries/art galleries. |
Prejudice | Making unfair judgments. |
Prehistory | The time before writing was invented. |
Biased | Unfair judgments. |
BC | Before Christ. |
AD | After Death. |
Stratigraphy | Artefacts found deeper beneath the surface are older than artefacts found above them in shallower ground. |
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. |
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. |
Well-Known Archaeological Sites in Ireland: | Wood Quay(Dublin) - Viking Settlement The CĂ©ide Fields(Mayo) - Stone Age farming site Lough Gur(Limerick) - Stone Age Settlement |