What is History?
Methods of Investigation
Sources and Evidence
Reconstructing the Past
Ethical Issues
100
The method of examining written documents to investigate the past
What is history?
100
The first step of an archaeologist
What is Finding or locating a site.
100
Anything that has survived from the past. The raw material used by historians.
What is a source.
100
Warfare and pollution.
What is examples of human agents of destruction?
100
Famous Greek Sculptures found in the British Museum
What are the Elgin Marbles
200
This involves asking questions about the past.
What is historical inquiry?
200
The three forms of Aerial survey.
What are Crop Marks, Soil Marks and Shadow Marks
200
The information gained from a source
What is evidence?
200
The dating of artefacts and written sources based upon written records from the time period.
What is historical dating?
200
Two reasons the British do not want to return the Elgin Marbles
What are (any two) - legal ownership, - preservation and protection, - now part of British heritage, - belong to world history,
300
Comes from the Greek word meaning 'the discussion of ancient things'. To investigate the physical remains of the past.
What is archaeology?
300
A method of archaeolgocal study of the vertical dimensions of a site
What is The Grid-System
300
The physical remains of a past culture
What is an artefact?
300
Three examples of relative dating.
What are: (Any three) Stratigraphic dating, Typology Dating, Seriation Dating, & The Three-Age System
300
This British law has allowed for the return of humans remains under 1000 years old.
What is The Human Tissue Act of 2004
400
The collection, analysis and interpretation of written sources.
What is the methodology of a historian?
400
The idea that the oldest material is in the lowest layers and the youngest is closest to the surface.
What is principle of Straitgraphy
400
Two questions that a historian would ask a written source?
What is (any two of) "What type of written source is it?", "Who wrote it and when?", "What was the writer's purpose?", "Who is the intended audience?", "Is it reliable?", "Is it useful in providing evidence about the period?",
400
The archaeologists who pioneered Seriation Dating
Who is William Flinders Petrie
400
The four levels of heritage.
What are family, community, national and international?
500
One of the limitations to the historian
What is the invention of writing.
500
The six step methodology of the archaeologist
What are Finding a Site, Excavating a Site, Recording Finds, Examining & Investigating finds, Analysis & Interpretation and Publishing findings.
500
Three questions to ask about an archaeological source.
What is (any three) "What is it?", "In what context was it found?", "Can it be accurately dated?", "How does it condition affect its interpretation?", "Is it reliable and/or useful in providing evidence about the past?" "What evidence does this source provide about the past?"
500
The three scientific methods to date ancient stone or rock.
What are Potassium-Argon Dating, Uranium-Series Dating and Fission-Track Dating.
500
Two Australian collections of Indigenous remains, only one of which has been returned to their traditional origins
What are the Crowther Collection and the Murray Black Collection.
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