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How is knowledge about Singapore's past constructed? (Questions …
How is knowledge about Singapore's past constructed?
Keywords
How
Singapore
Past
Comstructed
Historical Concept
Analysis and Use of Sources
Different ways archaeologists gather sources
Digging up artefacts
Surveying places from satelites
What do archaeologists learn from the sources they have discovered?
The daily lives of people who lived in the past. For example, the Malay coin(Satu Keping) suggest that people of the past may have been traders.
Culture and art of different societies. An archaeological dig at Empress Place uncovered a headless porcelain Buddhist figurine. This suggests that some of the people at Empress Place were Buddhist.
Questions
archaeologists use
What is this artefact used for?
Does this artefact hold any religious significance?
What kind of person made this artefact?
What can we tell from the architecture?
When were these artefacts made?