Artifacts
These are man‑made objects from the past, like pottery shards or tools, that tell us about daily life back then.
What are artifacts?
Tools like tablets, interactive whiteboards, and webcams used in classrooms represent this in education.
What is Technology?
The set of learned behaviors, symbols, beliefs, and values of a group is known as this.
What is Culture?
A firsthand account or object from the time being studied, like letters, photos, or diaries.
What is a Primary Source?
Works, like textbooks or scholarly articles, that interpret or analyze primary sources.
What is a Secondary Source?
A mans birth certificate from 1870 is discovered. Is this an example of an Artifact? Yes or No?
Yes.
Computers, and Smartphones are an example of what kind of technology?
Modern day/Electrical technology.
A day of celebration for the people that can involve sacrifices, dancing, fighting, and singing.
What is a holiday?
These include original documents such as maps, government records, or personal diaries.
Examples of Primary Source.
These include textbooks, encyclopedias, and academic articles used to frame primary material.
Common forms/Examples of Secondary Sources
A category of artifact including old film reels or laser discs that documents past technologies.
Media Artifacts
The wheel and fire are an example of what era of technology?
Prehistoric Technology
An object important to a culture such as a flag or statue of someone is an example of?
What is a cultural artifact?
A single object analyzed alongside its historical documents is called this, when the object itself is studied as evidence.
What is an artifact as a primary source?
A secondary source may become this when it becomes the focus of new historical interpretation.
What is a primary source in a new context?
These objects, like a religious book or crown for a monarch, showcase religious beliefs and social hierarchies and are important to people who idolize them.
Symbolic Artifacts
What is one of the main contributing factors to why we see advancements in technology.
To make our lives easier/more coinvent.
Actions or beliefs that are passed down from one cultural generation to the next.
What is traditions?
Historians must check this when using physical and written primary sources, such as forged documents.
Authenticity/If it's a forgery.
This is a risk when relying heavily on a single primary source or secondary summary.
What is bias or limited perspective?
An example of an artifact that reflects economic and propagandistic messages, often standardized and circulated.
What are Coins/Money?
This ancient innovation around 3,500 BC allowed people to record information systematically.
What is Writing System?
A researcher of this field might study how ancient pottery shards reflect class or regional identity.
Who is a historical archaeologist.
This problem involves the changing meaning of words over time, affecting interpretation of older texts.
Linguistic Change or Mistranslation.
According to historians, despite the appeal of these direct sources (Secondary Sources), starting research here without _________ may be unwise.
What are primary sources?