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How do we know what happened in the past?
How do we know what happened in the past?
How do we find out?
How do we find out?
What do we look at?
What do we look at?
H1 - Background
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1. H-1 Background 
Primary Sources or Documents
Primary Sources or Documents
1st hand original account of event. You were there and witnessed it or whatever you are reading was written by a person who witnessed it.
Examples -
Diaries
speeches
autobiographies - an account of a person's life written by that person.
newspapers
Secondary Sources or Documents
Secondary Sources or Documents
Account of an event by people who did not personally see event. Something written or created after the fact.
Examples -
References
books
biographies - an account of a person's life written by another person.
textbooks
Prehistory is history before written records were kept. Includes the time periods of Neolithic Revolution, Neanderthals and Denisovans, Stonehenge and the Ice Age.
Ecofacts
Ecofacts
Also known as fossils - Natural objects - made in nature
Examples:
Bones
teeth
skulls
shells
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