Auxiliary sciences of history
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Auxiliary (or ancillary) sciences of history are scholarly disciplines which help evaluate and use historical sources and are seen as auxiliary for historical research.
Auxiliary sciences of history include, but are not limited to:
- Archeology, the study of ancient and historic sites and artifacts
- Archival science, the study and theory of creating and maintaining archives
- Chorography, the study of regions and places
- Chronology, the study of the sequence of past events
- Cliometrics, the systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the study of history
- Codicology, the study of books as physical objects
- Diplomatics, the study and textual analysis of historical documents
- Epigraphy, the study of ancient inscriptions
- Faleristics, the study of military orders, decorations and medals
- Genealogy, the study of family relationships
- Heraldry, the study of armorial devices
- Numismatics, the study of coins
- Onomastics, the study of proper names
- Paleography, the study of old handwriting
- Philately, the study of postage stamps
- Philology, the study of the language of historical sources
- Prosopography, the investigation of a historical group of individuals through a collective study of their lives
- Sigillography, the study of seals
- Toponymy, the study of place-names
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