Sources of Historical Data

• Are sourced from artifacts that have been left by the past.

  Historical Data
• These artifacts can either be relics or remains, or the testimonies of witnesses to the past.
• those materials from which the historians construct meaning

  Historical Sources
• Is an object from the past or a testimony concerning the past on which historians depend to create their own depiction of that past.

  Source
• offer researchers a clue about the past

  Relics or Remains
• can be found where relics of human happenings can be found.

  Artifacts
• may have been created to serve as records or they might have been created for some other purposes.

  Testimonies of witnesses
• The historian deals with the dynamic or genetic (the becoming) as well as the static (the being) and aims at being interpretative (explaining why and how things happened and were interrelated) as well as descriptive (telling what happened, when and where, and who took part)