Thinking About Vocabulary
1. Oral Tradition
2. Secondary Source
3. Artifact
4. Primary Source
5. Archaeology
6. Excavate
7. History
8. Prehistory
9. Archaeology
10. Oral Tradition
Thinking About Facts
1. Primary and Seconday Sources
2. Primary sources are written records or artifacts from the time under study, while secondary sources are studies based on primary sources.
3. Historians search for clues to help them solve the mystery of the past.
4. They tell us what matials and what tools people used, how people lived and got around, what jewelry they wore, to name just a few examples.
5. History refers only to the story of what happened after writing was developed, while prehistory describes what happened before writing was developed.
6. Artifacts from the past to learn about the cultures that produces them.
7. That he was thousands of years old, that he was a prehistoric man who carried a kit of tools to help him survive, and that he might have been a shepherd.
8. Survival tools, such as an ax, knife-blades, rope, hunting arrows, a net for trapping, a needle, a fire-starter, and a "medicine chest;" that people lived in the Alps over 5000 years ago and that they interacted well with their environment and were metalworkers.
9. Any one of the following: studies by microscope, comparison studies, X-Rays, Carbon 14 Dating for the age of artifacts.
10. Who was he? What did he do for a living? Why was he so high in the mountains when winter set in? How did he die?
1. Oral Tradition
2. Secondary Source
3. Artifact
4. Primary Source
5. Archaeology
6. Excavate
7. History
8. Prehistory
9. Archaeology
10. Oral Tradition
Thinking About Facts
1. Primary and Seconday Sources
2. Primary sources are written records or artifacts from the time under study, while secondary sources are studies based on primary sources.
3. Historians search for clues to help them solve the mystery of the past.
4. They tell us what matials and what tools people used, how people lived and got around, what jewelry they wore, to name just a few examples.
5. History refers only to the story of what happened after writing was developed, while prehistory describes what happened before writing was developed.
6. Artifacts from the past to learn about the cultures that produces them.
7. That he was thousands of years old, that he was a prehistoric man who carried a kit of tools to help him survive, and that he might have been a shepherd.
8. Survival tools, such as an ax, knife-blades, rope, hunting arrows, a net for trapping, a needle, a fire-starter, and a "medicine chest;" that people lived in the Alps over 5000 years ago and that they interacted well with their environment and were metalworkers.
9. Any one of the following: studies by microscope, comparison studies, X-Rays, Carbon 14 Dating for the age of artifacts.
10. Who was he? What did he do for a living? Why was he so high in the mountains when winter set in? How did he die?
