When he found that under the skeleton of this young woman, there was still the skeleton of a small child, Chen Han's face changed from relaxed and comfortable at the beginning to slightly serious.

Chen Han and his small team of four people, responsible for the F4 exploration party, is a house site exploration party, "F" represents the "room", and 4 represents the fourth house site discovered.

According to common sense, the discovery of bones in the premises is already a thing that is not quite right.

According to archaeological findings, at least in the Paleolithic period, humans already had the concept of "burial", and when members of the tribe died, they were usually transferred to a "cemetery" for burial.

Many Paleolithic and Neolithic sites have been excavated with dedicated burial areas.

Therefore, there are usually no bones in the premises.

The bones were found, which meant that the young woman, and the child crushed under her, had died in the house and had no one to take care of them.

Until thousands of years later, the layers of loess buried the house and their bones in the ground, and nothing changed, just as it did then.

It's weird.

"It's... It's a fracture mark, right? Su Sa, who had been observing the bones, stretched out his hand and pointed to the chest and back of the female skeleton that had just been cleaned up by Chen Han.

It was obvious that several ribs in her chest were broken.

This shows that there is a high probability that this female skeleton did not die of natural causes, nor did it die of disease, but died of unnatural causes!

Maybe she died because of violent intervention!

But at this time, there is no way for everyone to confirm.

After all, the skeleton had been buried in the ground for thousands of years.

No one can tell whether the fracture of the rib was caused by geological changes or other factors.

It's just that the fracture found in the rib cage is really hard not to reminisce.

Zhang Jianbo lifted his glasses and speculated: "Could it be that the staff of the preliminary exploration made a mistake, this is actually not a house, but a burial pit?" ”

"Young women, children, this is very suitable for the form of burial?"

"Come on." Zhuang Yunpeng rolled his eyes and looked at Zhang Jianbo with a foolish look: "Old Zhang, this is the site of the late Neolithic period. ”

"Martyrdom was only popular in the Shang Dynasty, and there were some animal burials at most in the Neolithic period, and I haven't seen a living person."

"In that era, every healthy human being was a precious labor force of the tribe, how could it be taken to be martyred by the ruling class!"

"Even if it is a slave of a defeated tribe, it is not luxurious enough to be used for burial!"

"Harm!" Zhang Jianbo patted the back of his head and said with some amusement: "Shang Zhou's tomb has been dug up a lot, and his brain hasn't turned around all of a sudden!" ”

Zhang Jianbo is from the Shang and Zhou Archaeological Research Office of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and is usually responsible for the excavation of tombs in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

In his previous work, he had often come into contact with the burial pit, so he immediately thought of this.

It's a little joke.

Yes, the doubts on this skeleton should not be answered for a while.

However, there are too many cases of archaeology digging up things that make people look confused, and it is obviously unrealistic to figure it out on the spot.

Sometimes a small archaeological discovery needs to be studied for several months and various arguments before the situation can be sorted out and a report can be issued.

Zhuang Yunpeng picked up the camera hanging on his chest, looked at the skeleton composed of adult women and children, and took a few high-definition photos from multiple angles for archiving.

......

When the whole day of excavation work was over, all four had a little to gain.

In addition to the skeleton that Chen Han was responsible for, Su Sa also found a pottery that had fallen to the ground, which looked like a jar.

Zhang Jianbo found a stone axe in the corner of the wall, a very primitive tool.

Zhuang Yunpeng's discovery was the greatest, and he was lucky enough to unearth a piece of jade!

Although the full picture has not been cleared up yet, it is impossible to determine what the specific artifact is.

But if it's made of jade, it's worth a lot of money, no matter what it is.

Because of the cultural connotation of jade, it has become an important part of the aesthetics of Chinese people since ancient times.

The "jade culture", which originated in the early Neolithic Age and continues to the present, is a unique feature of Chinese culture that distinguishes it from other civilizations in the world.

The jade culture, with jade as the central carrier, has not only deeply influenced the ideology of the Chinese people, but also become an indispensable part of the Chinese culture.

"Rather for the jade broken" patriotic national integrity.

"Turning into jade silk" is a style of unity and friendship.

The selfless dedication of "moistening to warmth".

The integrity and integrity of "flaws are not hidden".

"A gentleman is like a jade" has both virtue and character.

Jade became the representative of the gentleman, a symbol of hierarchical status, and the most important component of the "etiquette system".

Chinese characters have created nearly 500 characters from jade, and there are countless words used in jade, and the treasures in Chinese characters are all related to jade.

The word "jade" is a beautiful and noble word in the minds of the ancients.

In ancient poetry, jade was often used as a metaphor and description for all beautiful people or things.

And all of this originated from the Chinese ancestors in the Neolithic period, who were the first to discover jade, appreciate jade, and use jade!

However, in the Neolithic period, especially before the mastery of bronze smelting, the production of jade was not an ordinary difficulty.

Even making jade was already the highest skill that the ancestors of the Neolithic period could master.

As the saying goes, the stones of the mountains can attack jade.

It's just that attacking jade is as difficult as attacking a city.

In that era, when there were no metal tools, the ancestors could only use granite to produce primitive tools by polishing stone tools.

Then, with these simple stone tools, natural jade is mined for polishing, drilling, and finally further processing by hand, until it is carved with ornamentation, in order to make complex and delicate and beautiful jade.

It takes at least a few years from production to completion!

At that time, a jade artifact was almost equivalent to a "lithography machine" now, and it was the pinnacle product of human craftsmanship in the same period!

Every Neolithic jade that can be preserved to the present day is a national treasure!

These jades from the Neolithic period not only retain the traces of age and years.

It also records the humanistic style of that ancient era, and even the artistic connotation that has passed through thousands of years.

Zhuang Yunpeng was able to find a jade artifact, which was already something that could make him excited and excited.

Touching the smooth and warm body of this jade, feeling the infinite wisdom of the ancient ancestors and the pinnacle of craftsmanship, even gave him the illusion of traveling through time and space.

Thousands of years ago, this piece of jade was picked up from a stream by a Chinese ancestor at the Lajia site, and it took years to polish, drill and carve into a beautiful jade.

Thousands of years later, that skilled ancestor has long been submerged in the long river of time, and no one still knows him or remembers him.

But the jade he once made still exists in the world after the changes of time.

Let the Chinese people thousands of years later be able to admire his proud works and get a glimpse of the beauty of art thousands of years ago!

Perhaps this is the meaning and romance of archaeology.