How many artifacts are there in the newly discovered No. 8 sacrificial pit?

There are more than 5,000 numbered artifacts alone!

They are stacked in layers of pits in a myriad of postures.

Standing next to the pit and looking inside, all you can see is a piece of green, a color that belongs to bronze!

"So many?!"

"In a few years, I'm afraid I won't be able to clean it up."

Seeing the situation in the pit, Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng instantly understood why Sanxingdui was only two sacrificial pits 1 and 2, but they could be dug for decades.

There are thousands of cultural relics in this pit, and they are stacked layer by layer, and a few pieces can be cleaned up in a day, which can be regarded as fast.

In addition, it needs to be repaired, studied, and so on.

It is not too much to clean a pit for more than ten years.

At that time, the special burial skills of the ancient Shu people created countless difficulties for the excavation of archaeological staff.

The same cultural relics are stacked together, resulting in some cultural relics wanting to be extracted, which requires very complicated cleaning, sometimes even unable to be stuffed by hand, and having to be buckled little by little with tools.

A figurative metaphor is like a mud pool full of pots and pans, which are still stacked in a disorderly manner.

In order to clear one, it may be necessary to remove several other artifacts and dirt from the surrounding area at the same time before you can move.

"There are a lot of dings, zuns, and pots, all of which have obvious Shang Dynasty characteristics." Zhuang Yunpeng stared at the pit and said with some excitement.

Lin Ya also said with some doubts: "This sacrificial pit is from the late Shang period, so there is no text found?"

The emergence of mature bronzes such as bronze tripods and bronze statues basically represents that a civilization has entered a very mature social stage.

In fact, the Sanxingdui civilization is indeed very mature.

The Sanxingdui site is the capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom, with a huge sphere of influence, and has even expanded to the Hanzhong area of Shaanxi.

Such a developed civilization must have a strict organizational structure.

Moreover, Sanxingdui bronze technology is very developed, such as casting technology, welding technology is very superb, gold content is very high, bronze can chisel out a variety of exquisite holes, etc., bronze technology is not inferior to the Central Plains Shang Dynasty in the same period.

Such a mature civilization should have written language.

However, during the excavation of the Sanxingdui site, no systematic characters such as oracle bone inscriptions, golden inscriptions and Warring States scripts were found.

Only on the unearthed pottery, gold, jade and other cultural relics, seven irregular carved symbols were found, and most of them were one vessel and one symbol.

As we all know, according to the three standards of civilization in the West, namely city, writing, and bronze (metallurgy), the absence of writing is one of the key criteria for entering a civilized society.

Therefore, Westerners have always used the lack of writing in Sanxingdui as a reason, and do not regard Sanxingdui civilization as a civilization, but only as a culture.

"Culture" refers to the ancient tribes of the Neolithic Age.

For example, Hemudu culture, such as Taosi culture, such as Longshan culture.

"Civilization" refers to a civilization that has a complete social system and constitutes a country, such as the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty.

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In China, after the continuous archaeological in-depth research of Sanxingdui, Chinese scholars are widely believed that Sanxingdui is a civilization, not a culture.

It can be determined that Sanxingdui is the early ancient Shu Kingdom, which is a country with social classes and civilization.

Westerners don't admit it, though.

It's not a matter of a day or two for Westerners to play this game.

Anyway, in the eyes of Chinese scholars, whether these characters in Sanxingdui are words or not, it cannot be denied that the ancestors of Sanxingdui have entered the era of civilization.

However, if you can find words, of course, it is a more perfect situation.

Moreover, the Chinese scholars themselves do not think that when the Sanxingdui civilization is so mature, there has not yet been writing.

Because, if there were no words, how did the ancestors of Sanxingdui rule the huge territory, how to achieve accurate information transmission, how to accumulate superb bronze technology, and how did the craftsmen work together?

It is almost impossible to solve these problems with language alone.

Therefore, from the perspective of social development logic, the ancestors of Sanxingdui should have a writing system.

Moreover, ancient documents record that there are written in ancient Shu.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty historian Chang Xuan's "Huayang National Chronicles" is very famous and is an important document for the study of Sichuan's history, geography, customs and human feelings.

Chang Xuan recorded on it: "Peng Zu was born in Shu and was the history of Yin Taishi...... Known in the past...... In the world of Zhou, it is limited to Qin Ba, although he is in the position of king, he is not allowed to meet with the Spring and Autumn Alliance, and the monarch is not on the same track."

It means that Peng Zu was a native of Shu and later served as the official of Yin Shang.

It shows that there are Shu people who are proficient in the Shang Dynasty script, and the Zhou Dynasty looks down on the Shu people, although they are required to obey the orders of the central government, but they are not allowed to participate in the alliance of princes.

Obviously, at least during the Zhou Dynasty, the ancient Shu state had a script, and it was different from the Central Plains script.

And the ancient Shu Kingdom during the Zhou Dynasty certainly did not appear suddenly, but was a descendant of the Sanxingdui civilization.

Their writing, of course, cannot appear out of thin air, and they also inherit the writing of the Sanxingdui civilization.

The evolution of a language and script cannot be completed in a few hundred years, but takes thousands of years to evolve.

Just like the oracle bone inscription of the Shang Dynasty, it has developed very maturely, and it does not look like a relatively primitive script.

It is now widely believed in academic circles that there must have been an immature writing system evolving before the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscriptions.

The Jiahu site, where the bone flute was unearthed, is likely to be the earliest birthplace of Chinese writing.

The Jiahu site belongs to the Peiligang culture that is earlier than the Yangshao culture, and the ancient Jiahu ancestors lived here for thousands of years.

On some of the cultural relics unearthed at the Jiahu site, there are some bone carved symbols, and these carved symbols are actually similar to the oracle bone inscription, which may be the ancestor of the oracle bone inscription.

The Yangshao culture, under the conclusion of the current research, is likely to be the source of the Xia culture, that is, the prototype of the Yellow Emperor and the Yandi tribes.

From the Peiligang culture to the Yangshao culture to the Taosi culture to the "Xia Dynasty" ruins that have not yet been discovered, and finally to the Shang civilization, there is actually a continuous system.

It's just that there is still a lack of enough archaeological evidence in the middle, and the most important "Xia" site has not been discovered, so that this chain of civilization cannot be proven.

But it has been proven that the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty were certainly not developed by the merchants in just one or two hundred years.

It must have inherited thousands of years of civilization experience before the emergence of a mature oracle bone system.

And the civilization of the Shu people, the Sanxingdui civilization, is absolutely impossible to have no words, but it has not been discovered yet!

Now in the No. 8 sacrificial pit, there are thousands of bronzes, many of which are commonly used by the Shang Dynasty next door to burn Zhong Dingwen's Ding and Zun vessels.

Will the Shu people learn from the merchants next door and carve their own words on the bronze?

Archaeologist at full level.

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