*History keywords* chapters 1-2
source
something that can give us information about a person, place or thing in the past
historian
a person who is an expert in history
museum
a place that collects items to display for appreciation and education
cross checking
checking different sources to see of the information is right
archive
a place which catalogues all written sources and others
bias
when information isnt historicaly correct because of an opinion
chronology
putting events into the order they happened
census
an official survey of the population
excavation
when archeologists dig up yhe ground to find evidence left by people in the past
aerial photograph
a photograph taken from high up to see the ground
stratigraphy
a method of dating artefacts by how deep they were in the ground
dendrochronology
a method of dating that uses the growing pattern of tree rings
artefact
an artefact is an itemwhicj was made in the past