After resting for two days and visiting the Sanxingdui Museum, Chen Han arrived at the Sanxingdui Archaeological Base with the archaeological team supported by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

They came in minibuses.

However, on the way here, Chen Han saw a lot of small electric donkeys, all of which were going in the same direction as them.

Sure enough, after arriving at the Sanxingdui archaeological base, inside the wall, there was a row of small electric donkeys.

Lu Ben, who came to greet them, saw Chen Han's eyes stay on those little electric donkeys, so he explained with a smile: "The archaeologists in the archaeological base, everyone rides small electric donkeys to work. ”

The place where the Sanxingdui archaeological base is located is very desolate.

The reason why front-line archaeology is called "field archaeology" is because everyone basically conducts archaeological work in the field.

The Sanxingdui archaeological base is surrounded by a farm field, and it is surrounded by wasteland or farmland on all sides.

There is only a fenced-off glass shed that stands on this plain.

Therefore, the staff who usually go to and from archaeology generally ride a small electric donkey to commute to work, which is convenient and comfortable.

Chen Han nodded understandingly, followed Lu Ben, and after the group passed the security check, they walked into the wall.

As soon as he entered the door, Chen Han saw two rows of rural aunts in their forties and fifties, carrying hoes and Luoyang City, walking towards an open space next to the central glass greenhouse.

Separated only by a glass wall, the archaeological site is divided into two halves.

On the left half, there is a tall and wide glass shed square, which is protected by the sacrificial pit that is currently being excavated, and there are many archaeologists wearing protective clothing in it, who are busy.

On the other half of the outside, there is a wasteland that has been leveled, and there is also a group of archaeologists, directing the local villagers, who are exploring the square and drawing lines.

"Whether it is inside or outside the wall, everyone is doing the same thing, that is, to explore the traces left by the sacrificial behavior of the ancient Shu people." Lu Ben said proudly.

Only sacrificial pits have been found.

But as a civilization with a sacrificial culture, it is impossible to have only sacrificial pits.

Next to the sacrificial pit, there must be a supporting altar or something like that.

What these archaeologists outside have to do is to find the location of the altar and other ruins.

It's just that it doesn't look like they're doing their job.

Chen Han stepped forward and took a look, although various lines were drawn in several exploration directions, they could only divide the excavation layer and the geological difference, and there was no trace of any man-made buildings and other things.

"At this stage, nothing more obvious has been found."

Lu Ben explained: "But these are all problems that we need to solve in our later archaeological work. ”

Chen Han didn't say anything.

Field archaeology is actually a process of opening a blind box.

Even with the help of the Luoyang shovel, it is a very complicated and imaginative thing to find the ruins through the Luoyang shovel or the exploration party in the confused wasteland.

It's not like you can just go down with a shovel and find it.

Sometimes it is common for an archaeological team to dig caves and open exploration methods all over the mountains and fields, and they are busy for several months and find nothing.

When Chen Han was still in college, he participated in the autumn field exploration work with his university tutor.

They were still in Henan, a major archaeological province, but it took a month of field exploration to find a small tomb.

Rather than determining the location of the site for excavation, it is the most difficult thing to find the site and the tomb.

This is also the reason why among the tomb robbers, the so-called "feng shui exploration" and "dragon point finding" are the masters.

Finding a grave is always better than digging a grave.

Applying it to the ruins, it is always more difficult to find the altar than to dig the altar.

After taking a slight look at the archaeologists outside, Chen Han smiled and asked Lu Ben, "Inside is the No. 8 sacrificial pit, right?" ”

"This time, we will first support the archaeological work of the No. 8 sacrificial pit?"

In this round of Sanxingdui archaeology, a total of six new sacrificial pits were discovered.

They are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and No. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and No. 3.

Pit No. 8 is a large pit, the largest number of bronzes of all the priestly pits that have been discovered!

It's just that the archaeological strength of Guanghan is seriously insufficient, and now the archaeological work of Pit 8 has not been carried out for the time being, but two professional researchers, with students from the Department of Archaeology of Sichuan University, to carry out "internship" archaeology, which urgently needs the support of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

So as soon as they arrived here, Lu Ben arranged Chen Han and a few people here.

In this regard, Chen Han has no opinion.

As long as he can participate in archaeological excavations, as for where to dig, he doesn't really have any requirements.

Even if he is asked to help with field exploration, it will be fine to keep digging holes.

However, it is obvious that their elite group of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences will definitely not be used in aimless exploration work.

Lu Ben led everyone, put on a set of protective clothing at the door, put on a mask, and entered the all-glass archaeological greenhouse.

At this time, in the shed, there were already seven or eight archaeologists who were also wearing protective clothing and masks, and their faces could not be seen clearly, were lying next to a exploration pit.

Listening to the sound of their discussion, Chen Han could tell.

It's all young people.

And they are all very young, with a very juvenile voice, estimated to be no more than 25 years old.

This group of people should be archaeology students at Sichuan University.

And the two teachers who were surrounded by them didn't feel very old, and they sounded like they were in their thirties.

It can be seen that the archaeological power on the Guanghan side is indeed very scarce.

If it is replaced by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, such an important No. 8 sacrificial pit must be personally led by an elder of Kong Jianwen's level, and the professor is the backbone to participate in the excavation.

It is said that it is an internship archaeology, but in fact, "seeing" is greater than "doing".

As the largest sacrificial pit with the largest area and the most artifacts among the eight pits, it is certainly not something that a few college students can excavate by hand.

In fact, the students, wearing protective suits, gathered around the two researchers, listening to their explanations about the situation in the pit.

After Chen Han and the others entered the shed, they did not alarm them, but walked to the other corner of the sacrificial pit.

Nine elite archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences looked into the pit together.

Then, there were one exclamation after another.

"That's a lot of bronzes!"

"It's too grandiose."

"There are too many bronzes in Sanxingdui!"

"Is this the amount of a sacrifice?"

In front of their eyes, a sacrificial pit of more than ten square meters was densely packed with bronzes, layer upon layer, large pieces set of small pieces, and small pieces of smaller pieces.

At a cursory glance, you can see that there are many familiar tripods and venerable vessels, as well as portraits and masks with Sanxingdui cultural characteristics!

This is a treasure land!