Evidence Flashcards
1
Q
What types of evidence can you get?
A
Written evidence, visual evidence, materialistic evidence/objects and oral evidence
2
Q
Examples of written evidence
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Manuscripts, records, books
3
Q
Examples of visual evidence
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Photographs, maps and drawings
4
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Examples of oral evidence
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Stories, songs
5
Q
Examples of materialistic evidence/objects
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Weapons, statues, artifacts in museums, mosques, buildings
6
Q
What is a griot?
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A storyteller from West Africa, most villages in Mali have their own Griot. Griots are guardians of oral histories.
7
Q
What do griots do?
A
Griots told tales and sang of births, deaths, marriages, battles, hunts and hundreds of other things. They often accompanied their songs on an instrument called the kora.
