As chronicled in your researcher's journal as I researched my history of early lifestyles in South Asia...
I like the leisurely writing style of some old guys. Ram Chandra Kak
wrote of work in Kashmir in the 1930s, "It was on a brilliant afternoon
that the site was first surveyed. The hill-side along which the water
conduit runs was waving with long-stalked Indian corn. But amid all
those fields of luxuriant corn there existed a square flat patch which
was covered only with thin turf, and in which there grew a solitary
stunted plane tree. This plot of land, by reason of its apparent
unproductiveness, immediately attracted attention. On enquiry from the
neat-herd who was watering his cattle in the brook near by, it was
ascertained that this barren field owned the significant name of
Kitur-i-Daj (field of potsherds), because the entire field consisted of
thickly packed sherds - whence its barrenness. The question that
naturally arose was how such an abundance of potsherds could occur so
high up the hill-side and so far from the present inhabited areas. The
only explanation (which eventually turned out to be correct) was that in
ancient times there had been dwellings here - dwellings the nature of
which could be ascertained only by excavation."
Current time travel apparatus location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
