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Where do you guys find sources? 2017-09-05 06:04:00 Post No.
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I want to learn a shitload about ancient strength challenges, specifically stone lifting. I want do some period strength athletics with my local SCA, but can't find any primary documentation, or any good sources in general for that matter.
Where do you guys find good reading material? Am I gonna have to read through lots of stuff about lots of different specific regions and build a big picture about lifting stones through that?
How do I into learning?
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A Google search for "X time period primary sources" is normally a good start.
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https://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2
Here's a metric fuckload of sources. They may have what you're looking for
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>>3337192
This is unironically the type of answer I'm looking for (in case you were being snarky).
So this is confirmation that I'm going to have to collect the topic specific stuff myself. Fine by me. My case is kinda weird, because I'm interested in a fairly specific facet of ancient cultures, and also because I'm partly looking for stuff that is confirmative of the existence of the stuff I'm actually interested in. So I'm not sure exactly what specific time periods, cultures, and regions are gonna yield information about what I'm looking for, which is people who picked up rocks as tests of strength.
Part of my problem also is that there are multiple instances of specific thing being talked about with different important details. So I'm trying to find the truth about it.
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>>3337212
Dude, holy shit, this is fucking awesome. Is this you who's put this together, because it's off the hook.
Where can I find more gold mines like this? Are there any good internet communities for this type of thing, more so that /his/?
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>>3337226
Not snarky at all. Some periods have websites with nothing but primary sources, like the BBCs Peoples War. Earlier stuff is normally only in books because it requires translation and the people who can do it want paying, though snippets make it online in articles and other media. It may also be helpful to just search for websites and read books generally related to your chose topic and see what primary sources they refer to, then looking them up.
By the way, searching for a guy called Boucicaut or the youtube video "can you move on armour" may be useful to you.
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>>3337254
>...websites and read books generally related to your chose topic and see what primary sources they refer to...
I thought I could do this with wikipedia, but the page on "Lifting_Stones" had like 5 shitty, dead links for references. It was dumb. But on the other hand, there was a "Lifting_Stones" page to begin with, full of really cool stuff completely related to what I'm trying to learn about, so that's an advantage.
It's a hard knock life.
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