S7 Chap 1 Section 1 Vocab

To learn about the past, they examine artifacts and the places where the artifacts were found

• environment

• historian

• culture

• archaeologist

People who study history

• historian

• primary source

• archaeology

• artifacts

Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event

• primary source

• secondary source

• artifact

• culture

Objects created and used by humans

• archaeology

• fossils

• artifacts

• primary source

An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event

• secondary source

• historian

• primary source

• archaeologist

A part or imprint of something that was once alive

• imprint

• fossil

• artifact

• archaeology

The study of the past, based on what people left behind

• fossil

• historian

• artifacts

• Archaeology

The knowledge, beliefs, customs and values of a group of people

• history

• archaeology

• artifact

• culture

The study of the past

• archaeologist

• history

• primary source

• culture