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History: Finding Ancient/Primary Sources  Tags: history ancient_sources primary_sources  

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What is a Primary Source?


Primary sources are materials that were produced during the period you are researching or by people who witnessed or were involved in events.

Ancient sources could be roughly contemporaneous, written within a few centuries of the topic or person you are describing.

 

 

Librarian Recommendations

This is a del.icio.us tag cloud with common term paper topics about the ancient world. Clicking on one of the topics will lead you to bookmarks of relevant primary sources from LINUS, the LMU Library Catalog.


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