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Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115 Tel # (062) 926 4166

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Avemaria college

Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115 Tel # (062) 926 4166

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History vs. Prehistory

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History - can be explained as a record of the events that happened in the past.

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Prehistory - does not record the happenings due to the fact that there were no recording facilities available in the period implied by the word

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Gave rise to words such as prehistoric man and prehistoric period.

Term used to denote the time period before recorded history.

Historians and geologists use the word ‘prehistory’ to denote the period of time since the beginning of the universe and since life began on the planet Earth.

It was also used to denote the time since human existence began.

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Prehistory

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Prehistory

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It is important to note that prehistory is characterized by the three-age system.

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1. the Stone Age, 2. the Bronze Age 3. the Iron Age.

These three ages are characterized by the types of tools used, and the materials used in the making of these tools.

Written records almost do not exist in the case of pre-history

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History

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History depends on written source.

It is a recorded set of events that might have happened during a particular period of time.

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History can be called the study of human past.

It heavily relies on writing hence, it could also mean that time period after writing was invented.

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History as a Social Science & Its Relation to Other Fields of Discipline

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Social science 

Its Relation to Other Fields of Discipline main social sciences (anthropology, economics, 

political science, psychology and sociology). amongst its branches, some fields in the humanities (

anthropology, archaeology, history, law and linguistics).

is a major branch of science, and a major category of academic disciplines,

is concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society.

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Sources of Historical Data

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A source is anything that has been left behind by the past. It might be a document, a building, a picture or a piece of ephemera

(things that exist, used or enjoyed for only a short time – e.g. a train ticket, a plastic cup, etc).

They are called 'sources' because they provide us with information which can add to the sum of our knowledge of the past.

Sources only become historical evidence, however, when they are used by a historian to make a point.

What they are evidence of will depend on what the historian is trying to say.

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Historical Method (HM)

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Comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence, including the evidence of archaeology, to research and then to write histories in the form of accounts of the past.

The question of the nature, and even the possibility, of a sound historical method is raised in the philosophy of history as a question of epistemology.

The study of historical method and of different ways of writing history is known as historiography

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HM: Source Criticism

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Garraghan divides source criticism into six inquiries:

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1. When was the source, written or unwritten, produced (date)?2. Where was it produced (localization)?3. By whom was it produced (authorship)?4. From what pre-existing material was it produced (analysis)?5. In what original form was it produced (integrity)?6. What is the evidential value of its contents (credibility)?

1-4 are known as higher criticism; 5 is lower criticism; and together (1-5) are called external criticism.

6 is called internal criticism. Together, this inquiry is known as  source criticism.

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