The Job of the Historian and Archaeologist

What is a primary source?

• a source that was made or written at the time of the event or a first hand account

• a source that was written or made after the event being studied or a second hand account

Which of these is a primary source?

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Which of these is not a primary source?

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When an account is not balanced and unfairly favours one side is ...

• Exaggeration

• Propaganda

• Bias

• Accurate

Information that has been designed to influence the attitudes of the general public is...

• Bias

• Accurate

• Exaggerated

• Propaganda

History is...

• the digging up of objects from the past

• the study of the past

• a place where artefacts are kept

• a place where written documents are kept

Someone who digs up artefacts is called an ...

• historian

• archaeologist

• early settler

• hunter-gatherer

The time before written records were kept is called ...

• carbon-14 dating

• archaeology

• prehistory

• post-history

Which of the following tools would an archaeologist not use on a dig?

• sieve

• flint axe

• trowel

• brush

Putting events into the sequence in which they happened is called...

• plagiarism

• accuracy

• propaganda

• chronology