The value of Archaeological Experiments often if found in the mistakes that we make while researching and I have really experiences this with my Japanese Braiding. I have been studying kumihimo for…
Category: Research
What’s coming in to Researcher’s Gateway in 2019!
It’s a new year for everyone. That means exciting things are coming for The Researcher’s Gateway in 2019. We have a lot more Research Blogs posts coming up, as well as several…
What are Ethnographic Sources?
In this blog, we focus on Ethnographic sources, a type of primary source that is inconsistently outside of academia, and yet they are invaluable. So far we have already covered Primary Sources…
St. Lucia’s Day
Once, when I was a little girl, I had a friend who was so very excited about representing Saint Lucia at her church. St. Lucy was her favorite Saint, because my…
Hanukkah – The Dreidels
In our A Brief History of Hanukkah blog, we mentioned the Dreidel game, a game associated now with Hanukkah and RoseAnna and I thought it would be fun to write a little…
St. Nicholas’ Day: Who Was Santa Claus?
When I was a little girl, I loved best of all, the magic of Christmastime. It was a strange time of year because my birthday is a week before Christmas. I was…
Written Accounts and Visual Representations as Primary Sources
Academic scholars also consider written accounts, such as diaries, writing on monuments, letters, commonplace books, autobiographies, wills, court documents, treaties, books of law, and merchant logs as primary sources.
A Brief History of Hanukkah
Hanukkah is known as the “Festival of Lights”, “Feast of Dedication” or the “Feast of the Maccabees”. It is a Jewish Holiday that commemorates the re-dedication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem…
Photographs in Archaeology as a Primary Source
In academia, photographs are not just considered an acceptable primary source; they are an invaluable one. Archaeological research often destroys the item that it uncovers, and the only way these artifacts are…
Multiple editions of the same source in research
So our question today is why use multiple editions of the same source in your research and why include it in a bibliography. I wrote this, as I often do, in response…