Paper 1 · sources of history
A historian who studies pottery, iron tools and the remains of stone walls dug from a site is using which source of history?
Aarchaeology
Blinguistics
Coral tradition
Danthropology
Explanation: Archaeology recovers and dates the material remains people left behind. It is the source that gives Southern Africa its evidence for the Stone Age, the Iron Age and sites such as Great Zimbabwe and Mapungubwe, for which no written record exists.
Derived from ZIMSEC History Paper 1, June 2019, Q2