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Learning About The Past

Learning About The Past. Social Studies August 26, 2009. What happens when there is no record or written history left by a culture?. Archaeologists- scientists who study the remains of human culture to learn about life long ago. They look at a variety of things to find out about the culture.

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Learning About The Past

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  1. Learning About The Past Social Studies August 26, 2009

  2. What happens when there is no record or written history left by a culture? • Archaeologists- scientists who study the remains of human culture to learn about life long ago. • They look at a variety of things to find out about the culture. • Bones, hair, pottery, tools, cloth, and jewelry

  3. Anthropologists • Anthropologists also help us learn about the past. • They study human cultures, patterns of migration, settlements, and human ancestors

  4. What is an ancestor? • Family members that lived long ago.

  5. How else can we learn about the past? • Oral Histories- stories told aloud and passed from one generation to the next.

  6. People and Culture • What do people in a culture share? • Language • Traditions • Food • Clothing • Religion

  7. Cultural Values • People in a culture also share their values • What are values? • Ideas about what is right or wrong, helpful or harmful, what is a success, and what is a failure. • What are some of your values?

  8. How do we express our values? • Values can be expressed through religious beliefs and governments reflect values.

  9. Customs • Customs are also part of a culture. • Customs are ways of living that people practice regularly over time.

  10. Cultures and Change • Cultures change all the time!!! • Reasons for change: • Innovation- new idea or way of doing something. • Through interaction with other cultures.

  11. What is cultural interaction? • Diffusion- part of a culture spreads through many other cultures and areas. • Infusion- introduction of one thing into another.

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