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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==== techniques to evaluate historical documents ====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'''
**
**
**
>> to do OPLV /
>> to do HAPP >>hist. context/ audience /purpose /point of view




==Historiography==
==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 ===
=== 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
=== 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 ==
== archeology & other historical evidence ==