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An ODERSA resource · Knowledge programmeA book only goes online once it is whole and read by someone else.

Chapter 16 of 16 · The great periods of history

The images in this volume

The four photographs in this volume, with their title at the source, their author, the address of their original page, their licence and the date on which it was checked.

What this chapter commits to

This volume serves four photographs. All of them are free: their licence was recorded on the image's original page, then checked again on the day the image entered this book. An image whose licence cannot be traced to its source does not enter, and there is no exemption. A chapter that teaches how to question its sources cannot serve images whose origin it would not state.

Three of these images carry the Creative Commons Zero dedication, which places the work as close as possible to the public domain; its text can be read at https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Two of them come from the open access programme of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose object record says Public Domain and whose image policy names the CC0 dedication. The fourth is under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, which requires the author to be credited, and whose text can be read at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; its author offers it under a choice of two licences, and it is that branch which this book keeps.

Each photograph has been cropped to the format of the page and recoloured in the colours of the house. That is a modification, the licence obliges us to say so, and every entry says so. The caption placed under an image therefore carries no attribution: it carries what the image teaches. The credit lives here, once, and once only.

The four photographs, in chapter order

Title of the image as it is written on its original page, author as they name themselves there, address of that page, exact licence and date of checking.

  1. Biface, commonly referred to as a hand ax: a flint biface from Upper Egypt, worked on both faces. Chapter 4. Cropped and recoloured by ODERSA.auteur non nommé à la source, Metropolitan Museum of Art, programme Open Access, inventaire 06.322.48 · CC0 1.0 · licence checked on August 9, 2026www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/573096
  2. Cuneiform tablet: student exercise tablet: a clay tablet carrying a Babylonian schoolchild's exercise. Chapter 5. Cropped and recoloured by ODERSA.The Metropolitan Museum of Art, par Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0 · licence checked on August 9, 2026commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuneiform_tablet-_student_exercise_tablet_MET_DP360672.jpg
  3. 0 Pont du Gard (1): the Roman aqueduct of the Pont du Gard and its three tiers of arches. Chapter 9. Cropped and recoloured by ODERSA.Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · licence checked on August 9, 2026commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Pont_du_Gard_(1).jpg
  4. Funayama Kofun (Yawatacho, Toyokawa), danmen-1: the section of a Japanese burial mound, with its superposed layers. Chapter 10. Cropped and recoloured by ODERSA.Saigen Jiro, Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0 · licence checked on August 9, 2026commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Funayama_Kofun_(Yawatacho,_Toyokawa),_danmen-1.jpg