Finding out about the Past
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| artefact | a man made object
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| carbon dating | a method used by archaeologists to date objects
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| primary source | a source made or written at the time the event took place
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| secondary source | a second hand source, written or made by someone who was not a witness to the event
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| pre-history | this is the period of history before written records were kept
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| rescue/salvage archaeology | when archaeologists carry out an emergency dig on a site that is in danger of being destroyed
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| census | a survey of population numbers in a country at a particular time
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| museum | a place where artefacts from the past are kept
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| archive | a place where documents from the past are stored
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| bias | a one-sided account of an event or person
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| propaganda | information or rumours created and spread to influence people’s views
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| prejudice | judge something before we have all of the information
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| archaeology | the study of things people have left behind them
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| stratigraphy | the study of layers of soil
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| dendrochronology | studying tree rings to learn about a particular period
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| crop marks | grass or crops will grow differently if there is an ancient building, ditch or wall buried beneath the ground
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| trowel | main tool used for excavation
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| conservation | when historic objects are protected and preserved so that they do not decay
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| pollen analysis | the studying of pollen remains to tell archaeologists what was growing during the time period.
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| geophysical survey | a survey of what's underneath the ground, like an x-ray of the ground
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| test trench | a sample hole dug to judge whether it is worth excavating the whole site
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