How We Study History Quick Check

Historians

• mainly use written records as their main sources of information

• study the past

• excavate artefacts at archaeological dig sites

• never evaluate the validity of artefacts

Archaeologists

• excavate artefacts at archaeological dig sites

• evaluate the validity of primary and secondary sources

• analyse artefacts from archaeological sites

• excavate fossils

A Primary source is one that

• comes from the period of History being investigated

• is created after the period of History that is being investigated

A Secondary source is a source that is

• created during the period of History being studied

• written or produced after the period of History that is being described

These letters are ____________ sources.

• secondary

• primary

TRUE or FALSE. These Egyptian artifacts are secondary sources.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE. This dictionary is a primary source.

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