Speaking Archaeologically™

Context is imperative to all archaeological studies. This is the line you'll encounter when you first start reading our journal on the Bhima Devi Project if you skip the Preface, that is.  So, what better line to begin this memoir with than this? It's doing precisely that for you right now—establishing context.  So, let's go then you and I... Let's not waste time. Let's go back in time! June 3, 2015 My first encounter with the site Bhima Devi Temple happened literally two days after Speaking Archaeologically was born. Back then, it was never going to be a Research platform. It wasn't even going to be a teaching platform. It was only going to be a page about forgotten sites and monuments on Facebook that people encountered by chance—and that's what I was doing that morning—writing about the Mughal Gardens of Pinjore (now known as the Yadavindra Gardens) when I stumbled upon what Wikipedia claimed to be The Khajuraho of the North.  Intrigued, I let one webpage

  I can never be thankful enough to SA for providing me a riverine flow of opportunities since the moment I joined. With the passage of time, it brought me the opportunity to make my childhood dream a reality. What is it, you ask? It was to cover a temple site!  But before actually diving into the magnificent details of the site cover, I would like to hark back in time! I still remember, in 8th grade, when everyone else was recounting their future ambitions to the teacher, I stood up and replied in a unique fashion, “I want to become an Archaeologist”. Never did I imagine that my decision to choose Archaeology over everything else would turn out to be this MAGICAL! Temple Architecture had always been one of my major interests which pushed me up to take up Archaeology. Covering a temple site was always one of my dreams as I did visit a lot of temples in South India, but did not have any idea about how to cover a site! The day I joined SA and looked at their previous plethora of field wo