Types of Sources

scientists who excavate and study items left behind by people throughout history

• historians
• archaeologists
• paleontologists
• geologists

human-made objects that help us learn about past civilizations and how they developed

• relics
• remnants
• trinkets
• artifacts

favoring one belief or opinion over others

• bias

• partial
• impartial
• neutral

something that can be proven true through evidence

• Fact
• Belief
• Hypothesis
• Opinion

a statement that expresses someone’s feelings or beliefs

• Fact
• Fiction
• Myth
• Opinion

interviews, recorded on audio or video, with someone who experienced an event in the past

• verbal testimonies
• spoken accounts
• narrative conversations
• oral histories

historical sources created by people who saw or experienced something and was usually created around the time of an important historical event

• Tertiary sources
• Secondary sources
• Quaternary sources
• Primary sources

historical sources created by people who have studied primary sources and then provide their interpretation

• secondary sources
• quaternary sources
• tertiary sources
• primary sources