Yr 7 History Key Terms

A type of historian who studies prehistoric people and cultures. They often find artefacts and important objects.

• Physicist

• Sociologist

• Historian

• Archaeologist

An object made or changed by a human being. This is called...

• an object

• an artefact

• a human person

• a skeleton/human remains/bones

A period of one hundred years.

• Century

• Decade

• Millennium

• Aeon (Forever/timeless)

A study of the past, including important people, places, events and ideas. This is called...

• Chronology

• History

• Stratigraphy

• Geology

A period of 10 years.

• Century

• Millennium

• Decade

• Aeon (forever/timeless)

To dig a hole in the ground to remove physical remains from an archaeological site.

• Excavate

• Preserve

• Conserve

A period of history when huge ice sheets covered much of northern Europe and North America, between 35,000 and 12,000 years ago.

• Iron Age

• Medieval period

• Bronze Age

• Ice Age

The study of layered materials (strata) that were deposited over time.

• Stratigraphy

• Geography

• History

• Paleogeography

Something that has been created or written during the time period being investigated e.g. diaries, letters and photographs.

• Secondary source

• Primary source

Accounts about the past that were created after the time being investigated, eg textbooks, histories written after the events being described.

• Primary.

• Secondary.