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| historian | a person who studies the past.
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| history | the study of the past
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| historic period | when people used writing
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| prehistoric period | the time before writing was used
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| primary source | evidence that comes directly from the time of the event
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| secondary source | evidence that comes from after the time of the event
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| autobiography | an account of a person's life written by the actual person
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| biography | the story of a person's life written by another person
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| archive | a place where written documents are stored
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| museum | a place where artefacts are stored
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| eyewitness | a person who witnesses an event themselves
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| cross checking | looking at many different sources and comparing findings
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| bias | favouring one side over another
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| objectivity | when a source contains facts and not opinions it is objective
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| propaganda | making one side look good and another bad- often used in wars or political campaigns
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| century | period of 100 years
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| milennium | period of 1000 years
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| BC | Before Christ
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| AD | Anno Domini(the year of our lord)
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| artefacts | objects made by humans
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| archaeology | the study of what has been left behind by humans
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| grave goods | objects buried with bodies to take to the afterlife
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| research archaeology | archaeology carried out to find out more about a known historical site
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| rescue archaeology | archaeology carried out before construction work to ensure no objects from the past are lost
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| salvage archaeology | objects are found by accident and then archaeologists are called in to investigate
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| geophysical survey | a machine like an x ray is used to look at the soil underneath the surface
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| aerial photographs | photos taken from the air to reveal features missed on the ground
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| stratigraphy | method of dating:the deeper an object is found the older it is
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| dendrochronology: | tree ring dating
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| Carbon 14 dating | dating method that assesses the amount of radioactive carbon left in an object to decide how old it is
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