The Historian
The written record and study of the past.
What is history?
A person who searches for and studies objects from the past.
What is an archaeologist?
400 AD
What century was Christianity introduced to Ireland?
A primary source written by a Dutch girl hiding from the Nazis.
What is Anne Frank's diary?
Founded the monastery at the Aran Islands.
Who is Saint Enda?
A source not taken directly from the historical event.
What is a secondary source?
An object from the past.
The worship of gods not recognised by the major world religions.
What is paganism?
A haircut worn by monks so God could see into their thoughts.
What is a tonsure?
The Irish pagan god of death.
Who is the Morrigan?
A source taken directly from the historical event.
Using aircraft to collect visual evidence of potential digsites.
What is aerial photography?
The priests of Irish paganism.
What is a druid?
A place where historic manuscripts are kept.
What is an archive?
The nickname given to County Galway.
What county is known as the Tribe/Tribesmen?
Anno Domini
An examination of a potential digsite.
What is a survey?
Palladius.
Who was the first missionary to Ireland?
The study and organisation of time.
The place where the Book of Kells is kept.
What is Trinity College?
The use of information in order to inflict bias on people.
What is propaganda?
The period of time before written history.
What is prehistory?
Where monks ate.
What is a refectory?
A littel handheld shovel used to delicately excavate.
What is a trowel?
The volcano that destroyed Pompeii.
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
A means of describing a source that contains absolute fact and no opinions.
What is a subjective source?
A method of dating that examines how deep in the soil artefacts and/or sites lie.
What is stratigraphy?
Abbot.
Who was the leader of a monastery?
A tool similar to a colander to separate dirt from artefacts.
What is a sieve?
The king buried beneath the car park.
A document written in the past.
What is a manuscript?
A method of dating that examines the amount of carbom that remains in an organism.
What is radiocarbon-14 dating?
Where monks wrote their manuscripts.
What is a scriptorium?
Counting the rings of a tree to determine its age.
What is dendrochronology?
The name of the bog body from Denmark.
Who is the Tollund Man?