Section 83 Prehistoric Archaeology
Chen Dong followed the visitor to the construction site where the skeleton was found. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The scene has been cordoned off by the escort who rushed to hear the news.
However, there were so many construction workers at the construction site at that time that they all saw the excavated bones with their own eyes, so the news of the discovery of the bones quickly spread among all the construction workers in the vicinity.
Chen Dong walked into the blockade of the escort and saw the bones that had been dug up by the excavator.
It's no wonder that the surrounding construction workers are in a meeting, and the escort team is tightly sealed off here.
As soon as he saw the skeletons, even Chen Dong was a little shocked.
This is no ordinary skeleton.
There are three most peculiar aspects of this skeleton.
First, the body shape of this skeleton is very similar to that of humans, tall, a single skeleton is 2 meters high, its real height is more than 2 meters, the height of the skull is slightly lower than that of modern humans, and the brain capacity of the skull is slightly smaller than that of modern humans, about 2500 ml, but it is much larger than the brain capacity of about 1100 ml of ape, which shows two points, 1, this skeleton is by no means the skeleton of an ape, 2, this skeleton has a non-high wisdom before its death, which is equivalent to the wisdom of the ancients.
The second peculiar place of the skeleton.
The skeleton has been fossilized.
As we all know, fossils take a long time to form.
There are two important concepts of fossils.
Fossils and subfossils.
Subfossil is about 10,000 years ago to about 6,000 years ago, some animal bones and human bones, due to the age, the organic matter in the bones has been lost and volatilized, but it is still petrified, it is called subfossil.
The skeleton has been petrified and is at least 10,000 years old, if not older.
In the third peculiarity, there is a rusty hammer on the left hand side of the skeleton, and a craftsman's hammer on the right hand side, with a casting hole in the middle of the hammer, and the wooden handle of the hammer has rotted.
This skeleton was pondering something before it was alive, and it was buried before it had time to react.
What attracted Chen Dong's attention the most was the rusty cutaway, which was rust, and the craftsman's hammer, which was cast in iron, and the civilization in which the skeleton lived had developed the Iron Age. At least more than 10,000 years ago, or even longer, it was amazing to be on such a small island far from the mainland.
Chen Dong has realized that a huge secret about prehistoric civilization has been revealed.
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Since there are no professional archaeologists in the Manua Islands, a Chinese archaeological team has been hired. Anyway, it is not a secret to China that the bones of prehistoric humans were found at the construction site of the Central Highlands Airport on Tawu Island, you know, at that time, the excavation of prehistoric human skeletons at the site were all the construction personnel of China State Construction, until ten minutes later, after the escort team heard the news, they rushed to the scene and took over the blockade of the site.
By this time, reports of the exhumation of prehistoric human bones on Tawu Island had appeared on the desks of high-level Chinese officials.
At the construction site of the airport, the bones of prehistoric human beings were excavated, whether it was China State Construction or the Manua Islands side chose to keep it secret, the person in charge of the construction of the airport project of China Construction Co., Ltd., at that time, there were about 100 construction workers at the excavation site, 21 members of the 1st Land Detachment of the Escort Team who blocked the site, and there were probably no more than 10 Chinese high-level personnel on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
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The excavation of the skeletons of prehistoric humans shocked the Chinese side.
Chen Dong hired an external archaeological team from China, and he fell in the way.
A few days later, on June 14, a professional archaeological team from China arrived on Tawu Island, led by Li Zhenxun, a famous Chinese archaeologist and professor at the School of Archaeology and Museums of Yan University, and assembled the most capable archaeological team in China, a total of 77 people.
The Chinese archaeological team arrived on Tawu Island, rested for a day, and began archaeological excavations at the construction site where prehistoric human bones had been excavated.
The archaeological team is very professional, the 'composition' is complex, there are archaeologists, as well as China's first-class technicians, they divide labor and cooperate, archaeologists archaeology, technicians clean up and excavate archaeology, from investigation, exploration, excavation, surveying and mapping, recording, sorting and protection of cultural relics and repair and restoration and other basic auxiliary work are all technicians to do, so, a professional archaeological team, technicians are the most important components.
First-class archaeology requires not only first-class experts, first-class team leaders, but also first-class technicians. The level of the technician determines the level of archaeology to a large extent.
China has sent not only the most famous archaeologists, but also the best craftsmen.
Many technicians have more than ten years of archaeological work experience, or even dozens of years ago.
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After a week of excavation by the archaeological team, the excavation progress has been completed by 1/3.
More prehistoric human remains have been excavated, and at the same time, a corner of the ruins of a prehistoric village has been excavated.
Every member of the archaeological team was greatly shocked that a prehistoric civilization was slowly uncovered.
At this stage of excavation, archaeologists have some understanding of this prehistoric civilization in their minds, and it also restores a devastating disaster that happened here at that time.
Archaeologists have determined the approximate age of these prehistoric human skeletons between 112,000 and 114,000 years ago by dating them with fluorine.
Archaeologists have unearthed artifacts such as iron tools that have not been completely corroded, and another example, a geared in iron, indicating that prehistoric humans had learned to make machinery, and this was a prehistoric civilization with a fairly high degree of civilization.
Archaeologists excavated a section of the ground made of concrete stone and sandstone, after analysis, this kind of material that blooms blue-black luster is very similar to the composition of modern cement, and this material is also found in the foundation of the village site, which plays a role in cement, and the foundation is very strong, which can show that prehistoric humans had very high construction skills and had used adhesives similar to cement to build houses.
Prehistoric humans may have written their words on animal skins, or on paper made of grass and tree bark, but after 110,000 years, the surrounding acidic soil environment, infiltration water and other factors have long since disappeared.
However, archaeologists have unearthed some stone slabs, on which some words and patterns are depicted, and the words and patterns are somewhat blurred.
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