History, art thrown away

As chronicled in your researcher's journal as I researched my history of early lifestyles in South Asia...



A site of potentially great help to me -- rumored to have been a capital for various governments, and at the very least an ancient city and therefore of great interest -- had not only its ancient buildings but its artworks (carvings, sculptures) destroyed and carted away to use as ballast! This was in the 1870s or so. (Read in the 1878 record of the comments of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.)
Current time travel apparatus location: Vancouver, Canada

Dating

No, not the fun type.

As chronicled in your researcher's journal as I researched my history of early lifestyles in South Asia...


Did 2 sites today, a busy day for travel. One site I had to move to a later chapter, as the excavators though they presented the scientific dating blithely placed the site in a significantly earlier period than it and other evidence signified. A scholar too pointed out how weird they were about not using the dating that was done at such pains. Of course this was all because the excavator was rather kooky and wanted the site for one of his favorite periods rather than a later one. Oh well, at least the real dating was right there.
Current time travel apparatus location: Tokyo, Japan

Teensy

As chronicled in your researcher's journal as I researched my history of early lifestyles in South Asia...




Did 4 sites today, which is surprising given all the time I spent on my upcoming trip. Only 2 were useful, and the other 2 were the type I see occasionally, a site mentioned by one scholar at most but regarding which nothing is available because it was such a teensy excavation, it was so destroyed, or whatever.
Current time travel apparatus location: The Round Library, Bangalore, India

Learning my lessons

As chronicled very early on in your researcher's journal as I began to research my history of early lifestyles in South Asia...



A quote from what I was just reading over breakfast that says well what I experience too often from certain sources before I learn to avoid them: "We would get lost for days as rumor or convincingly wrong data sent us up some promising path that only later proved a logical cul-de-sac. It didn't help that all of us had suffered the psychic equivalent of third-degree burns." (from a novel I'm enjoying very much: Neal Stephenson's Anathem)


Current time travel apparatus location: The Round Library, Bangalore, India

Violence

As chronicled in your researcher's journal as I researched my history of early lifestyles in South Asia...


In a culture kooks say was completely non-violent a lot of weapons and fortifications are found. What would make them admit there was violence, atomic bombs thousands of years ago? This shows how just a glance at the facts debunks a lot of myths.
Current time travel apparatus location: Pondicherry, India