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=== Features of Civilization === | === Features of Civilization === | ||
== Historical sources & methods == | |||
* tools and techniques to study history | |||
=== types of historical evidence === | |||
* archeological evidence: | |||
** remains (bones, fossilized human, animal, insect remains with DNA) | |||
** carbon-material for dating | |||
=== primary source === | |||
* historical evidence created by the historical actors or at the time | |||
** i.e., contemporaneous = "of the time" | |||
* eye-witness testimony | |||
** contemporaneous interviews or accounts, such as: | |||
*** newspaper reports of eye-witness accounts | |||
** diaries | |||
** personal letters | |||
*** court testimony | |||
** oral history | |||
** interviewing someone about their personal experiences in the past | |||
** may involve selective or inaccurate memory | |||
* other original documents, including: | |||
** official papers | |||
** newspapers | |||
=== secondary source === | |||
* historical evidence created by non-participant observers | |||
** could be contemporaneous or historical | |||
*** an "indirect witness" would be someone who lived at the time but did not directly participate in the event | |||
==== techniques to evaluate historical documents ==== | |||
* '''OPVL''' | |||
** '''O'''rigin | |||
*** | |||
** '''P'''uprose | |||
** '''V'''alues | |||
** '''L'''imitation | |||
* '''HAPP''' | |||
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>> to do OPLV / | |||
>> to do HAPP >>hist. context/ audience /purpose /point of view | |||
==Historiography== | ==Historiography== | ||
= the study of how history is studied | |||
=== Historiographic schools === | |||
=== Bias in study or writing of history === | === Bias in study or writing of history === | ||
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** although it could have bias in the work | ** although it could have bias in the work | ||
* see Historiography section | * see Historiography section | ||
== archeology & other historical evidence == | == archeology & other historical evidence == |