Chapter 63 Doing Popular Archaeology and Promoting Honest Historiography
Under the favor of Chen Han's good fortune.
In the next few days, the excavation of tomb M-168 by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences can be said to be very smooth.
According to the letter of confession, combined with the coffin system of the tomb owner, it can be determined that the tomb owner was a doctor during his lifetime.
The five doctors are in the twentieth rank of the Qin and Han dynasties, which is the ninth level, just at the dividing line between "scholars" and "doctors", and they belong to the level of "doctors" who have just entered the "doctor" level.
The tomb owner's burial specifications of one coffin and two coffins that fit the "doctor's triple" also confirms this.
Subsequently, Chen Han and the others also continued to clean out some pottery in the side box, which was basically similar to the pottery in tomb M-105.
It is also a stove, warehouse, urn, pot, pot, plate, retort and other living utensils.
However, these pottery, like the pottery of "Mr. Sibo", are relatively unpretentious, all of them are muddy gray pottery, most of them are plain, and a few are decorated with rope patterns and dark patterns.
From this point, it can also be seen that after the development of pottery to the Western Han Dynasty, it has reached the peak of the era, and the shape and style are basically fixed.
If you want to look good, you can only use freshly ripe lacquerware.
Of course, after another thousand years, Chinese pottery will usher in a big change again, and the porcelain hatched from the basis of pottery will be used as the business card of China, famous in the world, leading the world porcelain trend.
In addition, the most important discovery is the bamboo slip found at the bottom of the side box!
That's right, the owner of the tomb was buried with bamboo slips.
A total of 66 bamboo slips were unearthed!
At a cursory glance, the text is written in Li, which is good news.
But it's a pity that there are not many words recorded in these bamboo slips, some of them are only two words on a simple surface, and some are just over ten words.
And although the text is very clear, the content is not what everyone wants to see the pre-Qin lost articles or the works of the sages.
These bamboo slips are just a list of burial goods, called the "Dispatch Book".
This is generally a more formal nobleman with more funeral goods, and the use is actually similar to the letter of the land, which is for the officials of the prefecture.
Due to the rapid oxidation of the bamboo slips after they were unearthed, everyone has not had time to see the full content.
I only vaguely saw some fragmentary sentences.
Such as "three eight-inch lacquer plates" and "a stick in the left coffin." "Ten horses" and so on.
After the bamboo slips are sent to the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center for the restoration of the bamboo slips, the detailed content can be compared with the burial goods unearthed by everyone one by one to see if there are any omissions.
This is also thanks to the fact that Jingzhou has always unearthed bamboo slips and bamboo slips of the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, as well as various cultural relics, so there is a special cultural relics restoration institution.
Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center is one of the best cultural preservation institutions in the country!
Every year, 800 to 1,000 pieces of wood lacquer cultural relics, 10,000 to 15,000 pieces of bamboo and wood slips, and 400 square meters to 500 square meters of silk fabrics can be repaired!
Most of the burial goods unearthed from the Phoenix Mountain tombs this time had to be sent to the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center for restoration!
Of course, the rectangular piece of bamboo that Chen Han excavated that he didn't know what it was used for and that was covered with words was also sent for restoration.
Because Chen Han's reading level of seal script is very good, and as a newcomer, he has never seen what the Jingzhou Cultural Preservation Center is like, and he has not even had much contact with the restoration of cultural relics.
Therefore, after the first batch of unearthed cultural relics were cleaned up, Kong Jianwen waved his hand and sent Chen Han to send these cultural relics to the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center.
By the way, let him meet the world.
Chen Han is very willing to undertake this task.
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December 25th, 8 a.m.
Early in the morning, Chen Han got on a transport truck specially arranged by the Cultural Heritage Protection Center, carrying a truck full of unearthed cultural relics from tomb M-168, and went to the Jingzhou Cultural Heritage Center with Professor Li.
On the way, he did not forget to make reasonable use of time, took out the first-stage excavation report of the Lajia site sent by the Qinghai Archaeological Institute, and carefully studied it.
Tomorrow is the live broadcast time that Kong Jianwen said.
The verified Weibo account, Chen Han has also gotten it.
The name of the account is "Teacher Chen who loves archaeology".
I heard from my tutor that I discussed what to call for this popular science account for several days.
At first, he planned to learn from the style of Xiaoliang's early "naturalist magazines" and give a formal name related to the Institute of Social Sciences.
However, the director disagreed, and felt that such a new media promotion and publicity account directly hung the banner of "Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences" was a bit too heavy.
After all, the main body of the account is a young man in the institute, that is, Chen Han, and his speech on the account must not represent the entire Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Even if he did something wrong in popularizing science, he could carry the pot well in the name of "intern", how could he be involved in the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Therefore, after discussing it again, the name of this account was determined, and the relaxed "Teacher Chen who loves archaeology" was determined.
However, in the certified information, Chen Han is from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
This can be regarded as giving him a compilation in disguise.
It is also because of this that Chen Han has the motivation to do online science popularization.
If you do a good job, you can solve the problem of compilation!
The institute has also negotiated with Weibo, and Chen Han's live broadcast notification advertisement will be placed on Weibo tomorrow.
As a quasi-governmental institution, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has a very easy privilege in Weibo.
And Weibo also hit it off with the leaders of the institute, and now Weibo also wants to push the construction of the knowledge area more, hoping that there will be more knowledge V.
Not only Weibo, but also social platforms such as Zhihu, Station B, and Douyin, the administrative staff in the institute have registered and authenticated Chen Han's official account.
After that, Chen Han mainly operated the accounts of these four platforms.
Among them, Douyin mainly conducts short video science popularization, and makes some short videos similar to "identify recent popular archaeological rumors on the Internet".
Zhihu and Weibo are mainly used as interactive platforms to write some articles on archaeological science, answer questions from netizens, answer questions for netizens, and share daily interesting stories.
As for the video content, it can be to take the public to understand the daily work of archaeologists, introduce the tools used, and popularize some major archaeological achievements in China.
In short, in a word, the institute is determined to push Chen Han to the front of the stage and make him a voice in the field of archaeology on the Internet, a popular science Internet celebrity, and an influential big V!
As a result, it will influence and change the public's stereotype of archaeology, as well as misunderstandings about archaeology, and various archaeological rumors boiling on the Internet.
To do mass archaeology, preach honest historiography!
Of course, whether the beautiful blueprint of all this can be achieved depends on Chen Han's performance.
The institute can only create a good condition for him.
Whether he can become the fox director of the archaeological world, or whether he can't make a splash at all, it all depends on Chen Han's own efforts and creation!