After revealing the embarrassment, a group of people focused their discussion on this ancient stone ridge city.

"There are many more surprising discoveries, I really don't know where to start, let's talk about the most intuitive first."

Xiao Li looked at everyone present, his tone was a little nervous, the people sitting here really responded to the sentence "talking and laughing with Confucianism", all of them have a place in the domestic historical circle, and none of them are "white ding" in the historical circle.

"After talking about the area of the city, let's talk about the most visible walls of the city."

"The walls of the ancient city of Shiyuan are not the prehistoric rammed earth walls in our impression, but the stone walls, and it is precisely because of this that the city can only be discovered by us after thousands of years of wind and rain. Of course, I think what attracts everyone's attention the most is that the style and structure of the city wall of the ancient city of Shiyuan is very strange, in this era earlier than the Xia Dynasty, the city wall belonging to the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors Yao Shunyu actually has a defensive structure of later generations, such as the city of the Horse Mask Corner Table, as well as the wood, which are all structures that only exist in the next thousand years or even thousands of years. ”

"According to the degree of development of the city wall of the ancient city of Shiyuan, it is inferred that thousands of years ago, when the ancient city of Shiyuan still existed, the war at that time should be very bad, and continuous, and because of this, the defense structure of the ancient city of Shiyuan will be so complex, there is competition to have pressure, there is pressure to progress, under the continuous war, the ancient city of Shiyuan has developed a high degree of defense system, used to resist the invasion of the enemy, in addition, we also found a suspected guard tower outside the ancient city of Shiyuan, the building of the guard tower, As for the means of attack in the ancient city of Shiyuan, we cannot give any detailed information at this time. ”

"We believe that the upper limit of the existence of the ancient city is about 4,300 years ago, and the lower limit is 4,000 years ago, that is, from the middle and late Longshan culture to the early Erlitou culture. During these 300 years, the ancient city of Shiyuan should have been at war, and we also suspect that the abandonment of the ancient city of Shiyuan was also related to the war. ”

Professor Xu's face still looked so bland: "In the war four thousand years ago, it was difficult to find out who the enemy of Shiyuan Ancient City was, after all, until now, we have not been able to find the "existence" that can match Shiyuan Ancient City in historical records, let alone find the enemy of Shiyuan. ”

When it came to the ownership of the Shiyuan site, Xiao Li was embarrassed.

No matter which country's archaeology, they all like to sit in the right seat, which means that a historical monument has been discovered, and it is necessary to find the "true owner" for this historical monument in the historical record, and give him a "correct name".

For example, the site of "Yanshi Mall" found in Xitazhuang Village, Yanshi, Henan Province, only has a residual area of 2 million square meters, and its age is about the 16th century BC to the 14th century BC, which can be concluded to be in the Shang Dynasty. But just the ruins of a Shang Dynasty city used to be a war of words that lasted for more than ten years.

There are two main points in this pen-sharp war.

The first view is that this Yanshi Mall is the Xi'an of the capital of SenseTime.

Another opinion is that it was the Tong Palace placed by Taijia in the early Shang Dynasty, or the palace of the Shang kings in the early Shang period.

Yanshi Mall Tangdu Xi'an said that the era of Yanshi Mall belongs to the Shang Dynasty Erligang period, that is, the early Shang, and at the same time, according to the records of Tangdu Xi'an in the literature, it is believed that the location of Yanshi Mall is consistent with the location of Xi'an. Scholars who agree with this theory also believe that from the perspective of historical development, the Yanshi area was the hinterland of the Xia Dynasty, and it is entirely possible that Cheng Tang set the capital here for political considerations, in order to consolidate the political power and to suppress the remnants of the Xia Dynasty.

Yanshi Mall Taijia Tonggong said that Yanshi Mall is the site of the early mall, but this city is not the Xi'an of Chengtang, but the Tonggong of Yiyin Taijia, which can also be found in ancient documents, scholars who support this theory believe that the Yanshi area is the central area of the Xia Dynasty, and the ruins of Erlitou are the capital of the Xia Dynasty, and Chengtang did not establish the capital on the Xia Ruins, but a military town established here after the Shang destroyed the Xia, which was used to consolidate the western frontier defense of the early Shang Dynasty and suppress the rebellion of the Xia people, so it can be called the other capital of the Shang Dynasty.

In a combination of investigation and excavation and documentary research that lasted for more than ten years, the academic community finally determined that Yanshi Mall was the west of the Shang Dynasty, that is, the first view.

The ruins of the Shang Dynasty alone can attract so many wars of words, not to mention the ancient cities that belong to the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors earlier than the Xia Dynasty, but fortunately, the age of these cities is too early, so early that a group of people who are still fighting the Xia Dynasty have no time to estimate, so there are not many arguments. There is no doubt that the ancient city of Shiyuan existed earlier than the Xia Dynasty, regardless of whether this Xia Dynasty included the late Longshan period.

"This ...... The question of the ownership of the ancient city of Shiyuan, we have not yet found a perfect answer, it is better to say that there is no idea of the answer at all, because the location of the ancient city of Shiyuan is really a little embarrassing, located in the border area of Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia, basically far away from the scope of the activities of the three emperors and five emperors. No, it's not right to say this, the scope of the Three Emperors' activities is also uncertain, oops, it's too messy, let's still be too messy about the previous work of the Xia Dynasty. ”

"Then don't talk about attribution, you go ahead and find out."

Zhang Yanjiang lit a cigarette.

"Well, in addition to the structure of the city wall, there is a phenomenon of living sacrifice in this city, but considering the social situation at that time, it is normal for living people to sacrifice, but there is a certain law in the number of human heads in the city's head pit, which is what Professor Zhang said, and even the number of even, and even eight. I don't know how Professor Zhang deduced it before he knew the details? ”

Xiao Li looked at Zhang Yanjiang in surprise.

"It's just a coincidence, but at that time I happened to think of the Tao Temple ruins not far from the south of the stone pass, you all know, the "observatory" found before on the Tao Temple ruins, composed of 13 rammed earth columns, semicircular, radius of 10.5 meters, arc length of 19.5 meters. From the observation point, through the sunrise position between the earth pillars, the seasons and solar terms can be determined, and farming can be arranged, which is similar to the principle of Stonehenge in England, but much earlier. ”

"So when I saw the twenty-four heads in the pit, I somehow thought of the celestial observation of the Tao Temple, and then thought of the twenty-four solar terms, which was just such a coincidence."