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 === 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+==== techniques to evaluate historical documents ====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'''
+**
+**
+**
+>> to do OPLV /
+>> to do HAPP >>hist. context/ audience /purpose /point of view
 ==Historiography==
-* using sub-headings or bullets, discussion of the historical sources and historiography of this subject
+= the study of how history is studied
+=== Historiographic schools ===
 === Bias in study or writing of history ===
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 ** although it could have bias in the work
 * see Historiography section
-=== primary sources ===
-* contemporaneous = "of the time"
-* original documents, including
-** letters
-** official papers
-** newspapers
->> to do OPLV /
->> to do HAPP >>hist. context/ audience /purpose /point of view
-=== secondary sources ===
-*
 == archeology & other historical evidence ==