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Relationship between history and Archaeology.

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History is defined as the study of past human events. This definition is however very limited for it is not all past human events that constitute history, human activities are multiple and take place every day that they cannot be all be taken as historical event .History  Therefore is the study of the selected past human events. The selection of study of historical events depends on the historians himself, his own background, the political and socio economic environment in which he lives, the message he wants to communicate to his consumers and the lesson he wants them to learn  Tarimo (2004). Therefore we can define history as an interaction between the historian and his fact and an interaction between the past, present, and the future. For a long time until 20 th century written sources had been regarded as the only sources of history, absence of such sources in sub-Saharan Africa leads to the conclusion by the colonial historian that black Africans had no his...
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sources and importance of history:

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TOPIC ONE SOURSES AND IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY ·        Meaning of history ·        Importance of history ·        Sources of history History; is the study of the past events collected by historians based by verifiable facts. OR History; is the study of man and his activities in different periods. IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY: 1. To understand how societies were formed and developed. 2. Help in understanding and appreciation of culture, political, economic and technological development. 3. To learn how people depended to each other. 4. To learn when and where important events took place. 5. To understand the level of development at different stages of human development. Discussion questions; Qn1. why do we study history? QN2. What is history? Qn3. Mention five importance of history, SOURCES OF HISTORY:      1.   Oral tradition ...
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Describe with examples the differences between Artifacts and Acofacts. (Ay 304)

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Archaeology, like most disciplines, relies on various sources to obtain its archaeological information. In archaeology, such sources are material remains of the past which are, normally, excavated from different sites and critically analyzed to provide reliable archaeological information that can be used for different purposes including supporting research in various other disciplines. According to Hines (2004:9) such material remains of the past notably; ecofacts, artifacts, structures and features are a huge source of information such that academic discipline of archaeology is, at most, the study of these. In his book “Field Archaeology: An introduction”, Drewett (2012: 100) documents the importance of each individual type of material remain as having different value and role to archaeologists. In his account, however, such material remains are considered to have slight demarcations that are unclear to most people. It is from such pretext that this paper attempts, among...
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