History
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| Primary source | items or information that are discovered from the time being studied
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| secondary source | books or articles about the time being studied
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| hand written sources | hand written documents include manuscripts. They include hand written diaries, letters, notebooks, etc.
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| Printed | these includes books, newspaper, magazines, maps and government documents such as censuses (official population counts)
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| Pictorial sources | these include photographs, paintings and document films
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| Oral sources | these include eye-witness accounts, interviews, tape recordings and radio documentary programmes
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| artefacts | an artefact is anything that has been made or used by people. books, pottery and tools are all examples of artefacts
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| archives | house written documents
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| art galleries | contain paintings and drawings which tell us about the past.
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| prehistory | anything from before writing was invented
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| rescue archaeology | archaeological remains are some times discovered in land clearing operations
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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 or animal dies, carbon begins to leak out slowly from its body. by measuring the amount of carbon is left in a dead plant or animal, scientists can work out approximately when the plant or animal died
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| pollen analysis | can be used to find out what plants grew long ago in an area. pollen grains can sometimes survive for thousand of years and can be studied under a microscope
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| BC | before Christ
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| AD | anno domini
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