Key Questions
What do you think history is about?
History Is…
Historical Methods of Inquiry: How do we learn about
history?
Just like in a detective mystery, the questions historians try to answer are:
Who was there?
What happened?
When did it happen?
Where did it happen?
How did it happen?
Why did it happen?
Why do we study history?
History is About… H/O
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=MH-poqMomhk
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=GmtMpQAIKjQ
Historicise Yourself:
Homework
6 Key Ways to Study &
Perceive History
Nature of Archaeology
Video - Archaeology:
What is It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MGoYWa0B0&t=33s
Nature of Archaeology
Artifacts: Human-made objects like tools, pottery, and jewellery.
Architecture: Structures created by humans, like buildings, walls, and
constructions.
Biofacts or Ecofacts: Organic remains or environmental elements
revealing past human activities, like bones, plants, and soil samples.
Sites: Specific locations where archaeologists find evidence, from
ancient cities to burial grounds.
Roman Artifacts
Architecture
Human
Remains
Archaeological Sites
Historians and
Archaeologists:
What’s the
Difference?
Research Task:
Historian & Archaeologist Literacy
Task
Documentary
Unknown:
The Lost
Pyramid
Historical
Sources:
Evidence
Historians Use
How Do Historians Know
About the Past?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMdCUQF5o5w
Primary & Secondary Sources
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Analysing Sources: TOMACPRU
Type Origin Motive Audience Content Perspective Reliability
Usefulness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sWJEZiI2Y4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=642y3PXqTA&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFZzUZLC7Pg
ACTIVITY: YOU ARE TO MAKE
YOUR OWN TOMACPRU
GUIDELINE (ONE WHICH IS
UNDERSTOOD BY YOU). USE
THE LINKS GIVEN ON TEAMS TO
HELP YOU.
We Do: Annotating
a Source
You Do: Annotating a Source
What Time is It?
BC - AD or BCE
– CE?
Telling Historical
Time
Telling Historical Time:
Counting Down
Historical
Investigation: The
Science Behind
Archaeological
Finds
Dating Archaeological Finds: Why?
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Dating methods can enable bioarchaeologists to determine factors such
as environment, diet, health, or migration
patterns of humans, plants, or animals.
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Ordering archaeological finds within time
periods across traditions is how
archaeologists piece together the past that
connects all contemporary cultures today.
3 Further Ways to
Date
Archaeological
Finds
determining the age
organic material
radiocarbon
radioactive isotope of carbon
relative dating
assemblages
artifacts
Relative Dating: Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy Activity
Extension Activity: Tutankhamun’s Tomb
Otzi the Iceman: The World’s Oldest Murder
Mystery
A Stone Age Mystery
Historical Methods of Inquiry
Otzi: Questions to Answer
Write these in your History notebook with several lines to include
answers
Evidence Item 1:
Where was he
found?
Brainstorm: How was
Otzi's body
preserved?
Otzi the Iceman
Body Contents
Health
Health
→ Otzi had whipworm.
→ During CT scans, it was observed
that three or four of his right ribs
had been squashed when he had
been lying face down after death,
or where the ice had crushed his
body.
Variety of Artefacts found with
Otzi
Knife
Arrows and
sheath
Copper Axe
Brainstorm & Research Task
Final Investigative Report: How do you think Otzi died?
Write two paragraphs explaining/justifying your chosen argument for
how he died. This must be done on a word document and submitted on
Teams.
Look at the theories surrounding it.
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