This 15 slide Year 7 History lesson sequence introduces students to the types of evidence archaeologists use and how artefacts are interpreted. The resource helps students analyse what evidence shows, what historians infer, and what its limitations are. The first section (slides 1–8) opens with an inquiry question asking how artefacts help us understand early human societies. Students examine tools, bones, shelters, art, environmental evidence, and scientific analysis, each explored through a consistent interpretive framework. The section closes with a synthesis slide drawing together how different forms of evidence combine to build historical understanding. The second section (slides 9–15) provides a flexible activity bank including source analysis, annotation tasks, creative thinking, structured writing, sequencing evidence, retrieval starters, and consolidation checks. The transferable skill is source interpretation; early human archaeology is the vehicle.

This resource is provided as non‑editable PDFs and is not designed as editable PowerPoints. Teachers can upload slides to their LMS, print selected pages for classroom use, display them to support discussion, analysis, and writing, or upload them to presentation or design platforms if they wish to adapt the material (formatting may vary depending on the program).