Chapter 344: Ancient Elephant Fossils
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"Do you have fun too?" Jin San saw Hou Liang from a distance, struggling to carry a huge white thing.
It's really huge to say huge, that thing seems to be an elephant's head, two long tusks, sharp teeth, and a huge white skull, such a thing is absolutely rare.
It's just that the tooth is one or two meters long, and the head is more than a meter long, such a big elephant head, I really don't know where he found it.
When Hou Liang walked in, Jin San was even more sure that this should be a fossil of an elephant's head, such a well-preserved fossil, Hou Liang could actually get it?
This kind of thing is known to everyone to be a treasure, not to mention that there are two tusks more than one meter long on it!
"Where did you get this?" Jin San held back the exclamation in his heart and asked.
"Recently, a farmer in Xinwen Township was digging sand in the Wen River when he found a gray-white stone that resembled the rumored giant beast tooth, and finally an old local expert confirmed that it was likely to be an ancient elephant tooth bone fossil.
Because they had already found ancient elephant tooth bone fossils there, and now that they had such a thing, they had a different idea.
However, it was only a fossilized tooth, and the weight did not seem to be enough, so they mobilized a large number of people to excavate that section of the river again.
In the end, I harvested a lot of things, and the best one was this, although this thing was cleaned, it still had more than 100 catties. ”
As he spoke, Hou Liang carefully put the fossilized elephant's skull on the ground.
"More than a hundred pounds of things. That's how you carried it? "Jin San said incrediblely.
"What can I do, people from Xinwen Town. The guards outside won't let you in, but it's a gift for your old man. I couldn't help it, I was the only one who carried it in. Hou Liang said helplessly.
"Tsk, some time ago I said that we have tigers in Dongshan, I didn't expect that we not only have tigers here, but also elephants, but I don't know if there are rhinos, this Asian rhinoceros is also a good thing!"
Hou Liang rolled his eyes and didn't speak, if it weren't for the people in Xinwen Town who wanted Jin San. Do you think that such a treasure will be given to you?
Among the cultural relics of Dawenkou, there are many ivory products, and there was no such thing as importing them from abroad at that time, so this has always been a mystery for the ages.
Since the discovery of the world-famous Dawenkou culture in 1959, the source of materials such as ivory combs has puzzled archaeologists since its excavations.
In the period of Dawenkou culture from 4600 to 6300 years ago, and the transportation was extremely underdeveloped, where did these products come from?
Previously. A farmer in Dawenkou Town, when digging sand in the Dawen River, accidentally found a gray stone and was throwing it away. Suddenly, it was discovered that it resembled the rumored tooth bone of a giant beast.
Immediately, he sent this "strange stone" to the Dawenkou Cultural Site Museum located on the north bank of the Dawen River.
It was measured that there were 11 rows of teeth on the toothed stone. The width of a single row of teeth is 8.6 cm for the elderly and 2.7 cm for the shortest. The longitudinal thickness of the cogging is 24.1 cm, and the stone weighs 5.2 kg.
According to research. This "strange stone" is a fossil of a giant tooth of an ancient large herbivore, which is likely to be a fossil of an ancient elephant tooth bone.
There are many tropical animal bone artifacts such as ivory combs, ivory congs, ivory beads, ivory carving cylinders, crocodile scale plates, etc., in the cultural relics of Dawenkou.
At that time, the level of productivity was very low, the exchange of goods had not yet appeared, and transportation was extremely underdeveloped, and the origin of these artifacts remained a mystery.
Now, with the discovery of elephant fossils near the Dawenkou cultural site, an age-old mystery has finally surfaced.
This discovery has aroused great concern among the cultural relics experts of the Dawenkou cultural site, who concluded that the materials of ivory, crocodiles and other bone artifacts unearthed in the cultural relics of the Dawenkou culture are not from "stones from other mountains", but from local materials.
From this, in ancient times, the Taishan and Dawen River areas were hot and rainy, with lush forests, much like today's tropical rainforest climate, with the natural conditions for animals and fish to live and survive in the heating zone.
At that time, herds of elephants, rhinoceros and other herbivores infested the forests and grasslands of Mount Tai, while crocodiles, turtles and other amphibians lived in the lakes and wetlands of the Dawen River Basin.
The ancient Dawenkou people who entered the patrilineal clan commune period had learned to hunt, and after obtaining the meat of elephants, crocodiles and other animals to eat them, they used their bones to make ivory combs, crocodile scale plates and other utensils.
According to the geological data of Mount Tai, the Dawen River area of Mount Tai was still a vast sea 2.5 billion years ago, with the violent movement of the ancient crust, and the fold and uplift of the ancient Mount Tai mountain system, the sea water gradually receded, and then after two long sea and land changes, ups and downs, Mount Tai gradually took shape.
In a certain geological time, the Dawenkou Basin of Mount Tai used to have a humid and hot marine climate.
This statement also provides evidence for the infestation of elephants and crocodiles in ancient times in Dawenkou, but the evidence is the evidence, and later archaeological excavations have not found too many fossils of ancient elephants and other ancient giant beasts, and in the end it can only be lost.
The mountains behind Jin Sanjia are the birthplace of the ancient river, and after the ancient river flows out of the three towns of Wangquan, the people of Qidu call this river Yanhe, and then flow south along the river, and when it flows through Xinwen Town, it flows into the Wen River.
From here, the people of Xinwen Town called this river the Wen River, and it was from here that the Wen River changed, from flowing to the east and south, and directly changed to flowing to the west.
It is a river that flows from east to west, and although it is a small river, it is still famous.
As the Wenhe River flows out of the boundary of the small city, more and more rivers converge until the Dawenkou area, where the people call it the Dawen River, and the world-famous Dawenkou culture was born in the Dawen River Basin.
The Dawen River, known as Wenshui in ancient times, is the only tributary of the Yellow River in Dongshan Province and the largest river in Taicheng.
Most rivers run from west to east, but the Dawen River is the largest backflow river in Dongshan Province from east to west.
The Dawen River originates from the northern foot of the Xuangu Mountain, which is known as the head of the 72 Gu of Yi Meng, and the upstream is called the Muwen River, which collects the waters of the Taishan Mountains and the branches of the Mengshan Mountains. It flows through Qidu, Laiwu to Taicheng, and joins the Chaiwen River at the mouth of Dawen. Called the Dawen River.
In this process, Xuangu Mountain, Mount Tai, and Mengshan Mountain plus their major tributary mountain systems. All can be said to be the origin of the river.
The Guhe River is only one of the branches, and the Wen River is just a tributary of the upper reaches of the Dawen River.
In this way, there is no way to verify where the ancient elephant teeth in the Dawen River rushed through.
But now it is different, ancient elephant fossils have also been found in Xinwen Town, and the ancient elephants of ancient times are likely to live in their area.
Now the outside world has turned the world upside down, at this time. It happened to be the dry season in winter, and the entire two sections of the river and the Wen River were hired by excavators to turn over from top to bottom.
This digging is really a big harvest, a lot of fossils of various ancient beasts have been found, and even more fortunate ones have also found a few golden bowls from the sediment of the river along the river.
There are too many people digging sediment in the river every day. Whoever has gained anything can't hide it from people at all, so the appearance of several golden bowls suddenly caused an unprecedented sensation.
After a few days of excavation. Nearly 1,000 excavators, which can only wreak havoc in the entire river section, are the last count. Seventeen pieces of gold bowls and gold ornaments were excavated, and various animal fossils were discovered. It is as high as one hundred and three.
In this way, the impact can be great. Now not only the province, but also abroad have noticed this large-scale archaeological excavation.
The city is now ten steps and one post, three steps and one sentry, which has sealed off the entire small city, and all archaeological excavations have been recovered.
And this surviving fossil of the ancient elephant's head was brought into the Jin family by a respected old man in Xinwen Town one step earlier, otherwise, it would be the preferred target for zhèngfu to recover.
Now there is chaos outside, and in the entire Qidu City, only the three towns of Wangquan are calm.
Originally, for the sake of great interests, this peace was about to be broken.
Now no one can guess that in the ancient rivers of the three towns of Wangquan, there must be a large number of gold artifacts or fossils waiting for them to excavate, but there is a Jin family sitting there, so that some people dare not stretch out their hands.
In the end, the Jin family became an obstacle for everyone, and blocking people's money was like killing their parents, so the Jin family inadvertently became a thorn in everyone's side, making them pull it out quickly.
But just when they were about to put it into action, Jin San showed a hole card again, so that those very sick pink eye patients had to put away their sharp minions again, and lay quietly on the side, waiting for Jin San to reveal his flaws.
But all they were waiting for was a fierce blade.
The three towns of Wangquan are still calm, and this calmness has been more obvious since this morning.
Originally, because of the influx of a large number of people in the surrounding three towns, there was endless hustle and bustle in the three towns, but now, that noisy atmosphere has disappeared and has become dull and even a little depressing.
Originally, those high-minded big money, as well as foreign friends with their heads held high, were actually cautious at this time, bowing their heads and carefully watching the road, as if they were afraid that stepping on an ant to death would cause endless trouble.
Last night, Jin San's flying sword made some people completely sober up.
Jin San is not a soft persimmon, but a sharp sword, and whoever hits his blade will only have five steps of blood.
With such a cognition, the major forces that originally regarded the surrounding three towns as a piece of fat, and whoever came first could grab a bite of it, made a big jump.
They know better how the law of the jungle eats the strong, so they began to clamp their tails and be careful.
Jin San studied the fossilized skull of this elephant, just a fossil, the original value, although very high, but not so high that it is unimaginable, but if this Chinese elephant can be resurrected, it will be different.
But the elephant skull, which has been turned into a fossil, has no cells in it, so these ideas are impossible to realize.
"Hou Liang, do you know those people in Xinwen Town why they sent me this?" Jin San looked up, but saw Hou Liang meditating.
This kid is a college student, so when he was a child, all his time was spent on studying, and until now, he didn't even feel the sense of qi, so Hou Liang also knew how to punch and kick, in this way, he was more powerful than ordinary people, but it was not much better.
Unexpectedly, this guy's opportunity came, and when he saw the Great Dao Diagram, he actually broke through the array arranged by Jin San on Yin Yang Fish and learned a set of qi exercises.
However, it is obvious that Hou Liang has passed the time to practice martial arts, and at his age, even if he is stimulated by the array and introduced into the illusion, he is only learning some methods of practicing qi, and he cannot practice true qi and feel the existence of true qi.
Jin Sanyi thought, this kid is also a talent, since he wants to cultivate some masters, he naturally needs to rest assured that he is trained by his own people.
Jin San took out a small porcelain bottle from the bloodthirsty space, which was the dilution of the plant Jinghua he had prepared, Jin San used his divine sense to pick out a trace from it and flicked it directly into Hou Liang's mouth.
If you want to use external forces to help him find his sense of qi, as long as he cultivates a trace of true qi, he will also enter the stage of refining and transforming qi, and in the future, there will be big fish and meat at home to make progress for him, and it is not too difficult to go further.
Jin San was fine, took out a DV from the Bloodthirsty Divine Tree, activated the time ability, and began to record the experience of this ancient elephant.
In ancient times, the earth was densely planted, all kinds of tall trees were everywhere, and groups of giant beasts lived on this land.
An elephant is born, it grows very fast, and in a few years, it grows into a strong bull elephant.
Fighting again and again, it became the leader of its own race, and as it became stronger, its race began to grow.
Until one day, they met another huge group of people living here.
That year, the grass and trees dried up, the rivers were cut off, and all the herbivores were threatened with death, so they inevitably went into a state of opposition.
Its enemy is a giant rhinoceros, although it is high, although it is strong, but the giant rhinoceros is not weak, the same strong body, at the same time, the skin is even harder than it, making the giant rhino like a heavy tank.
After a tragic fight, the two behemoths were both defeated, and one of the elephant's tusks pierced the head of the giant rhinoceros, and the horn of the giant rhino also pierced its head.
In this way, the two ancient creatures were abandoned in the dry course of the Wen River.
Soon after their deaths, perhaps God had mercy on their two races, it soon rained heavily and buried them in the mud and sand.
After countless years passed, in the end, only the head of a giant elephant remained, and the rest of its body did not know where it was washed away by the river.
Jin San looked at the closed and unusually tight elephant head, and couldn't see the big hole that was hit by the giant rhino, but the big hole was real.
Jin San's heart moved, and his divine sense invaded the elephant's head, and sure enough, in the elephant's head, there was also a giant rhinoceros horn.
"Haha, I didn't expect such a good thing, sending an elephant skull, and actually giving a huge rhinoceros horn, this is an authentic Asian rhinoceros!" Jin San shouted happily. (To be continued.) )