Sophia and I both fell into the deep pit in the deep pit, and when I was about to climb the slope to leave, I found that Sophia was very interested in a black stone on the ground, and when I got closer, I realized that the black stone on the ground was actually an inky crockpot. Curious, I held the crockpot in my hand and thought: How can this utensil of daily life appear here? Could it be that there was originally a place to live in this deep pit? However, who will live in this strange deep pit, it is not the brain that has entered the water. Could it be that there are "mausoleum keepers" in the Tang Tomb here, and they used to live in this deep pit?

And just when I was thinking crankily and denying my thoughts one after another, Sophia next to me suddenly exclaimed without warning, and I immediately turned my head to find that she had stood up in a panic, and took more than a dozen steps backwards in a row, and then fell to the ground. I placed the crockpot on the ground, walked up to Sophia, who was sitting on the ground, and lifted her up from the ground. Seeing that her face was full of horror and her hands were trembling, he asked her, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Sophia didn't answer me, still looking terrified, and then slowly raised her hand and pointed behind me. When I saw this, I was shocked, and I said, "Is there something terrible behind me?"

Thinking of this, I immediately turned around and made a defensive gesture. It turned out that there was nothing behind me, and when I looked closely, I realized that the direction of Sophia's finger was the same place where the crockpot was found. I looked closely, and Sophia had continued to dig through the earth with a dagger while I was concentrating on the crockpot in my hand, and now, the ground showed a part of the edge of the large crockpot that was obvious, and the broken crockpots were scattered in the dirt along the edge.

I returned to the excavated ground, squatted down to look at the exposed things on the ground, part of the curved jar edge clearly exposed to the ground, its can body was still deep in the soil, the curved jar edge in the dirt spread infinitely around, how big is the mouth of this huge crockpot? It is difficult to verify now, but the visual estimate of the extension of the rim of the tank is beyond the area of the small deep hole I am in now. The ground was dug down by Sophia along the edge of the spout, and the soil inside was turned out and piled aside, and from the not too deep dirt pit, a piece of human skull was exposed, probably because of this thing, which caused Sophia to exclaim. I used a bronze dagger to dig up the dirt around the skull, a complete skull exposed to the ground, and Sophia, who was not far away, couldn't help but let out a soft cry, I had to turn my head and comfort her with a smile: "Don't be afraid, the bones of the dead are not terrible, the living are really terrible, you don't know, there are some people in this world who are so terrible that they eat people without spitting out bones." ”

What I said obviously did not ease Sophia's nervous and frightened feelings, she hid away and shivered, covered her mouth with her hands, as if afraid that the sound of her own breathing would disturb the peace of the dead, and then said to me in a very careful and soft tone: "Let's go up!" ”

Looking at Sophia's pitiful appearance like a frightened bird, I said to myself: girls are timid. I couldn't take my eyes off Sophia, who was hiding in the distance, and she was as cute as a frightened bunny. Since ancient times, the hero has been sad to pass the beauty pass, although he now wants to leave immediately with the scared Sophia. But the crockpots on the ground tugged at my heartstrings like a bewitching charm, tempting me to take a look at them. After all, the ancient burial culture is to me what drugs are to addicts, and people can't extricate themselves.

I had already made up my mind, so I raised the corners of my mouth, my eyes were slightly confused, and with a smile that was not worth my life, I said to Sophia very gently: "Wait a minute, I'll go up at a glance, okay?" ”

Sophia looked at me confusedly and nodded blankly.

I immediately turned my head and thrust my finger into the eye socket of the skull's skull and lifted it upwards with all my might. As a result, the skull was not pulled out, and I couldn't help but be surprised and asked: Could it be that there are still corpses attached to this skull? Thinking of this, I quickly used the dagger to dig through the dirt around the skull, and it was literally just below the skull, and I saw the shoulder blades, and then part of the arm bones were also exposed. I thought to myself: then there must be ribs down here, and maybe pelvic bones and leg bones. Well, this is a complete corpse, and this complete corpse is put straight into the crockpot. Thinking of this, suddenly a burst of electricity passed through his mind, and he suddenly woke up, and exclaimed in his heart: Could it be that the pit in this pit is a tomb. And this clay pot is a special coffin "urn coffin", which is used to bury the dead bone altar. If the curved jar exposed on the ground is an urn coffin, it will inevitably be too big, and how many dead people must be buried here! The thought of a large mass of corpses beneath my feet instantly gave me goosebumps.

"Urn coffin" is a special burial tool, which began in the early Neolithic Age and continued until the late Neolithic Age.

The clay pots used for tombs are all storage utensils in daily life, which are randomly used for burial, with different specifications and shapes, and there are also very few special urn coffins made of zuò. Children's urn coffin tombs are mostly composed of two pottery buttons together, the lower jar or urn is filled with the child's corpse, and the top is covered with one or two pottery bowls, and the bottom of the bowl will have a small hole, which is said to be an immediate passage for the soul, and the urn jar is mostly buried vertically around the people's residential areas. Thinking of this, I said in my heart: Could it be that this big pit we came down from really had someone who lived here? However, there is no grass growing in this big deep pit, and it is foggy at night, and not even a mouse has ever found a mouse, so how can ordinary people live in such a strange place. Moreover, looking around, there are no traces of human life at all.

I squatted on the ground and looked at the bones exposed, and I didn't need to look closely to know that the person buried in this urn was obviously an adult, that is, the "second burial". The second burial of adults refers to the bones of the deceased who have been buried, and then put them into the urn coffin from the new convergence, and then cover the lid with the "mud button", and the mouth of the can body is generally attached to five or six "mud buttons" along the outer wall, and after the mud button on the lid and the mud button on the top of the can body are symmetrical, the tile cover and the clay pot can be buckled together, or the "mud button" can be hooked with a rope to tie the clay pot together. Most of the bones of ordinary adults are messy, and it is almost impossible to show such a vertical burial method as the one under my feet, which I can't help but feel very strange.

However, there are more than one or two strange things. Usually, there will be a group of tombs in the general clay pot burial, and there will be several or dozens of burials in the same area, and people will not be buried collectively in the same urn like in the deep pit under their feet. This unique and strange group burial method doesn't make sense at all, and it is completely out of common sense.

Another strange thing is that as far as I know about the special urn coffin, the largest height is no more than one meter, the abdominal diameter is about one meter, the bottom diameter is a little more than half a meter, and the body of the tank is half a foot thick. The coffin on the ground in front of me was obviously too large, and the thickness of the urn was very thin, only about an inch thick.

Seeing so many peculiarities, I began to speculate in my heart, thinking to myself: Could it be that so many dead people were buried together because of the war. So, I squatted on the ground, waved my dagger, and dug up the outer soil again. As a result, nothing else was found except the skull, no traces of metal weapons or anything like that, not even the remains of clothing. I felt more and more strange in my heart, could it be that these dead people were all stripped naked and buried? At this time, on the ground, more than a dozen white skulls had been unconsciously exposed, and the appearance was intact, and there were no traces of damage from the fight.

Usually there will be some funerary goods in the urn coffin, but there are very few, and some will not put funerary goods. However, it is certain that the earth will never be put into the jar, this large urn is like a person straight into the back, and then slowly fill the earth, if the earth is poured vigorously at one time, these corpses should not stand so neatly, it is inevitable that they will be washed down by the pouring earth. The more I thought about it, the more strange I felt, and I wondered, "Could it be that these people who were placed in urns were still alive when they were being poured with earth, so they would stand firm?" But this kind of thinking is so appalling, who would stand stupidly and quietly in the urn coffin while he was alive, waiting to be buried alive.

After thinking about it, the most reasonable explanation is that urn coffins are generally buried in front of and behind the houses where people lived during their lifetimes, so there are indeed humans living here in this deep pit. And due to various reasons, presumably the cause of the disease, a large number of residents died at the same time. Therefore, they were buried in the same huge urn coffin, and then a deep pit was dug to bury the infected people who could not be treated. This makes sense of why it is possible that the buried person is alive, and that the earth is filled to prevent the spread of disease! In this way, the human beings who live in the pit are likely to be the real "mausoleum keepers" of the Tang Tomb. However, now that these mausoleum guards are missing, it is possible that they have not escaped the mud flow of history and are extinct.

I was really full of curiosity about the huge urn coffin under my feet, and although I came up with some conclusions, the real research still needs to be further investigated. I stared intently at the skulls on the ground, their dark eyes were terrifying, and Sophia, not far away, had retreated to the bottom of the slope, staring closely at my every move. Sophia didn't know what I did, and was probably guessing right now, so she should be able to roughly estimate that my job was related to dealing with dead people.

"Urn burial", a burial method in which people are buried in urns, is the first time I have seen it, and it is too valuable for historical reference! It's a pity that the master is not here, if his old man is here, he can dig and discuss with him, and study the burial methods of the ancient "urn coffin". This kind of burial method, unique and mysterious, is very old this year, it is difficult to find a complete group of tombs with research significance, so I know very little about the relevant knowledge, I really hope to dig here, fully study and learn.

However, now that I have an important task on my body, I don't allow time and equipment, so I can only have the opportunity to come back in the future. Thinking of this, I had no choice but to pick up a broken clay pot, use half a clay pot to hold the earth, bury the skull exposed from the ground, and then, with my hands together, said to the ground in front of me, "Sorry to disturb, don't blame." With that, he walked over to Sophia's side.

Sophia seemed to be frightened, so she was in a trance, and I asked her a little worriedly, "Are you okay?" ”

Sophia nodded, and then, suddenly, with a very abrupt smile, said to me, "Your hobby is really strange, are you an archaeologist?" I remember that your master was an antique dealer, do you still sell bones? ”

After listening to Sophia's words, I knew that she was thinking crookedly, I am a serious antique dealer, how can I be like those lawbreakers who only have money in their eyes, reselling dried corpses for huge profits. So, I smiled and explained to Sophia, "I'm also an antique dealer, and I'm just interested in the crockpots here, so I want to take a closer look to see if they're worth it." As for the sale of bones, it is a crime, and I will definitely not do such a thing that lacks the virtue of the eight generations. ”

After hearing this, Sophia seemed to feel a lot more relieved, and her face softened slightly, and then asked me, "Then do you see any results?" After speaking, a pair of big watery eyes looked directly at me.

I was furious at the sight of her eyes, and deliberately turned my head sideways to avoid her eyes, and muttered, "This is a cemetery, let's leave quickly." ”

Sophia, not knowing whether she didn't understand the meaning of the cemetery or whether she didn't hear it clearly, took a step closer to me and asked, "What do you say is this?" ”

I had to turn my head, look her in the eyes, and say to her in a loud voice, "This is a grave, us."

As a result, before I could say the second half of the sentence, Sophia let out an exclamation of "ah" and pounced on me. And I was completely defenseless at the moment, and she threw herself to the ground directly, and Sophia, in a very strange position, fell beside me.

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