1. You should go to the Museum and visit the sections that correspond to the period we are studying (the origin to 1500 CE).

2. You will pick an artifact (or more in case you want to do a comparative analysis).

3. The indicative questions you will have to answer will be:

-Period of the artifact

-Timeframe you will be discussing

-You’ll place the object in time and space (political order, religious views, economic activities)

-Usage

-What does it tell us about society of the period and the place you picked?

-Was there trade or encounters with other civilizations? How do we tell? Influences and similarities with other places, artifacts we studied or you saw in the museum?

-You need to have at least one primary source (the artifact itself counts) and at least two secondary sources (meaning scholars who have written about it - not one guy on the internet wrote that...)

-In the write up you need to use proper academic style (citation, good grammar and spelling)

-Give evidences for your argument

4. Times New Roman 12, double-spaced

5. Bibliography at the end

6. Be creative, interesting and straight to the point

7. Enjoy this assignment!
 

FAQs
 

• access databases off campus
• determine a journal's impact factor/other journal metrics
• find peer-reviewed articles
• find the full text of an article from a citation

 

• Complete Library FAQ list

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Article Databases: Ranked by Relevance

• JSTOR
• Art Full Text *
• Ebsco search for History *
  Search across Academic Search Premier , Humanities International Complete , and Military & Government Collection
• Gale PowerSearch for History *
  Search across Academic OneFile (1980 - current) , General OneFile (1980 - current) , and World History Collection .

* Note: Limit to peer-reviewed articles in databases that contain content that is both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed.

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Recommended Books

• Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology
• Encyclopedia of Religion, 2005
• An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology
• Grove Art Online
• Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture REFERENCE N 5610 .G76 2007
• Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture REFERENCE N6260 .G75 2009
• Science and Technology in World History
• World mythology: The illustrated guide Reference BL312 .W66 2006

Also, explore:

• ProQuest Ebook Central
• ACLS Humanities E-books (HEB)
• Credo Reference

• Kanopy : A streaming video resource with a broad collection of over 26,000 films.

• Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.) REFERENCE DESK Z253 .U69 2017
  
• The Chicago Manual of Style Online: Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide
  For common examples of materials cited. University of Chicago Press.
• Chicago Manual of Style Shop Talk: Turabian for Students
  This official Chicago Manual of Style guide to Kate L. Turabian's Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations includes paper formatting examples, tips on crafting a paper, and a crash course in citations. 
• Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

See also How do I cite a museum display in Chicago? (Walsh University).

RefWorks

• Register from any computer by going to https://refworks.proquest.com and clicking on Create Account.
• Using RefWorks: New RefWorks Guide; A two-page handout; and FAQ Collection: RefWorks

[Access legacy RefWorks]