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What is History (The job of a Historian (What are Sources? (Examples…

- - - - Written
        
        Manuscripts (books written by hand)
        
        An autobiography (the story of a person's own life)
        
        Biography (written by a historian about another person's life)
        
        Census (records information about families, business, housing and education)
        
        Newspaper (kind of published source)
      - Visual
        
        Photographs, painting, documents
        
        Cartoons and drawings
        
        Maps
      - Oral
        
        Interviews
  - - - Diary
      - Newspaper
  - - - History textbook
  - - - Collects and stores objects for study or display
      - Examples
        
        Local Museum
        
        National Museum in Dublin
    - - Collects mainly written sources
      - Examples
        
        National Archive in Dublin
    - - Stores books
      - Examples
        
        The National Libary in Dublin
        
        Local County or City library
- - - - Spears
      - Pots
      - Coins
      - Rings
  - - - Some sites are above ground
      - Examples
        
        Castles
        
        Pyramids
    - - Some are found by chance when people are ploughing or building
      - Examples
        
        The Armagh Chalice was found when two boys were digging for potatoes
        
        Terracotta Army was found when people were digging for a well
    - - Legends or biblical stories
      - Example
        
        The story of Troy
    - - This shows up crop marks (patterns in the way crops grow) which indicate that a feature lies under the soil
  - - - When layers are laid down in the earth, the oldest layers and finds are at the bottom and the youngest layers and finds at the top
    - - Archaeologists can tell when a tree was growing by studying the patterns of rings. the pattern of rings on a piece of wood is compared with the record of tree-ring growth in Ireland
    - - When a plant, person or animal was alive can be worked out by measuring the amount of carbon 14 remaining in the sample of wood or in the human or animal bone was found
    - - Objects found alongside these objects will be from the same age