Chapter 16: Is This a Bowl of Meat Noodles?! (Please follow!!) )
"Anyway, let's show it to the teacher first, and let the teacher confirm it!"
Zhuang Yunpeng took the camera from Zhang Jianbo's chest in a hurry and ran to find Kong Wenjian.
And when Kong Wenjian, who was leading a team to clean up a large cemetery around the altar, saw these photos.
He has always been calm and calm, and he has the temperament that Taishan does not change his face even before the collapse, but he was really shocked!
"You guys found this at the F20 scout?!"
Looking at the noodle-like photos in the camera, Kong Wenjian's heart really couldn't be calm.
Although his first reaction when he saw the photo was that it looked like noodles, reason told him that this thing could not be noodles.
He prefers to think otherwise.
For example, a fabric that happens to have a similar shape to a noodle?
Because according to common sense, no one can believe that noodles can be preserved.
This is the site of 4,000 years ago, and the noodles in a pottery bowl from 4,000 years ago can be preserved to the present?!
What an international joke!
However, he immediately put down all the work at hand and followed Zhuang Yunpeng to the F20 detective square.
Even if reason told him that this thing couldn't be noodles, Kong Wenjian still had one ten-thousandth expectation in his heart.
What if, what if?
It's noodles!
Noodles are made from wheat flour, which was first born 9,000 years ago in the farming civilization of the Mesopotamian plains.
In the 6,500 years since its birth, wheat cultivation technology, along with noodle making technology, has gradually spread from the Middle East to the world.
Among all the countries on the planet that have written about noodles, the Chinese literature is already the earliest, dating back to the Eastern Han Dynasty about 2,000 years ago.
However, before the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no historical record of noodles.
And they are all written records, and no physical objects have ever been unearthed.
Therefore, the Italians and Arabs, who also have a long history of eating noodles and have unearthed actual noodles, have been claiming that they are the countries where noodles originated.
The Silk Road, which started from Chang'an and passed through the Western Regions, Central Asia, West Asia, and even the Mediterranean countries, is often referred to as the "Noodle Road" by Western scholars.
Because with the prosperity of the Silk Road, noodles and wheat food gradually spread to all regions along the Silk Road.
Even, some of China's own scholars swear that the noodle making process should have been introduced to China from the Middle East through the Silk Road at the earliest, and Huaxia was not the origin of noodles.
For this reason, they have also written many papers, citing various foreign archaeological excavations to support it.
Try to prove that the noodle thing was imported from the Middle East through the ancient Silk Road!
After a few years of this argument, there are still many clusters in China!
If, if the curly strip found under the bowl in F20 is really noodles.
All the debates about the origin of noodles can be concluded.
All the so-called noodle theory, the Middle Eastern origin theory of noodles, the Italian origin theory, can all be extinguished.
This bowl of noodles from 4,000 years ago, which appeared at least 2,000 years earlier than Italy, will be the world's earliest physical archaeological data of noodles to date!
It will prove that Huaxia was the first country to invent noodles!
Kong Wenjian's footsteps were hurried, and he almost rushed to the F20 probe.
As soon as he arrived at the F20 probe, he immediately walked quickly to Chen Han and the others who were gathered in the northeast corner of the probe.
couldn't help but say, Kong Wenjian hurriedly picked them up, squeezed them in, and looked at the mound on the ground with all his attention.
A pale yellow curly strip appeared in front of him.
The noodles are beige in color, and the thickness is very uniform, with a diameter of about 3 mm, and the length is so long that it is impossible to tell how long each one is.
However, the visual inspection is definitely not short, at least more than five centimeters in length.
Whether it's thickness, length, or appearance, this lump of strips really looks like noodles.
The only pity is that due to the passage of time, this mass of strips is very weathered, and only a thin substance remains on the epidermis.
"You found it in an earthenware bowl that was upside down on the ground?" Kong Wenjian looked at Chen Han.
Chen Han nodded hurriedly.
"Xiao Chen, good job!" Kong Wenjian smiled kindly and said affirmatively: "Four thousand years ago, when the disaster that destroyed the ruins of the Lajia family happened. ”
"Maybe the family happened to be eating noodles, and a sudden disaster destroyed the settlement at once."
"And this bowl of noodles is just upside down on the ground, and because there is a clay pot pressed on it, the inside of the clay bowl has formed a semi-vacuum environment."
"This is really a small probability event that will only be encountered in 1 in 1,000, or even 1 in 10,000."
After seeing the real thing with his own eyes, Kong Wenjian had even more speculation in his heart that this thing might indeed be noodles.
I can even restore this scene that happened 4,000 years ago in my mind!
It's hard not to think so about the coincidence of all kinds of signs!
Kong Wenjian hurriedly called a few colleagues who are very professional in the protection of cultural relics, and carefully extracted the remains of this suspected "noodle" from the ground.
"I must send it back to the capital immediately, and let my colleagues from the Academy of Sciences next door help identify it and figure out the composition of this thing!"
"Let's see if it's made from grain!"
If this thing is really made of grain and eaten, then it must be that the noodles are gone.
I watched the teacher carefully pack the "noodles" and other remnants in the bowl and prepare to transport them back to the capital for identification.
Chen Han quickly stopped Kong Wenjian.
"Teacher, wait!"
"Let me look again, I think there should be other finds in this mound!"
If Chen Han hadn't been the first discoverer of this "noodle", Kong Wenjian would definitely blurt out and scold.
Once this thing was unearthed, after coming into contact with the air, it immediately accelerated its weathering, and now a delay of one more second is a kind of damage to cultural relics.
Kong Wenjian frowned and stared at Chen Han: "It's only five minutes!" ”
Chen Han hurriedly squatted down, picked up a bamboo stick, and pulled it up in the mound of soil that was pressed into the bowl by the pottery bowl.
In fact, on the way to Kong Wenjian, Chen Han was already looking for other discoveries, and he had already found a little eyebrows for him.
I saw that after he accurately pulled a few times in the dirt mound, several lumps smaller than the cover of his fingernails were pulled out by him.
"Teacher, look!"
Chen Han excitedly pulled these pieces with a bamboo skewer a few times, and shouted in a somewhat changed tone: "This is an animal's bone fragment!" ”
"The food conditions of the ancestors of the Lajia family are not bad!"
"It's not just a bowl of noodles, it's a bowl of meat noodles!"
"Meaty!"