Which methods are used to learn about the past?

Methods such as codices, paintings, writings from the past, and drawings or images are used to learn about the past. Also, anything that we can dig up, such as fossils, are used to learn about the past.

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Read, Scholarly books & articles, then original texts by people at the time if you can find an accessible version.

Find out about how people lived, how they interacted with the land & resources. Learn something about agriculture (very important in past centuries, less immediate to us now) and how things were made.

Avoid TV history channels. The research is atrocious. Radio can be better.