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…
Category: Primary Sources
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.
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…
Primary Sources and the Lens of Research
Primary sources are the first hand artifacts of a time period and one of the most important parts of research.