"Specialist consultation room."

It's an interesting meeting room.

The expert consultation here does not refer to the consultation of the patients by the doctors, but the consultation of the archaeological experts on the cultural relics.

Well, in a sense, it's also a kind of "doctor" method.

At this time, in this small conference room, more than a dozen staff members were already seated.

Among them, the main personnel are the front-line archaeologists supported by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as well as several colleagues from the Sichuan Institute of Archaeology who are engaged in field archaeology in the No. 8 sacrificial pit.

The reason why we have invited everyone to the consultation room today is certainly not for small talk.

During the archaeological work of the No. 8 sacrificial pit, Lin Ya encountered a problem.

For archaeological work, once there are some difficult places, the best way to deal with them is to find a group of experts and meet together to discuss how to deal with them.

It's not a person who has to deal with it.

To treat these historical relics, we must be cautious and cautious, and it is better to hold a meeting to simulate a hundred times than to start casually and then cause damage to the cultural relics!

"Now, the altar and the divine beast have been completely separated, and this thing is not easy to deal with."

"Now the amount of soil in the upper and lower parts is very large."

"What we want is to rip out the entire soil of the base......"

As Lin Ya spoke, many of the other participants shook their heads and sighed.

You can't do that, and if you do, there's no support underneath and the artifact will collapse.

Now, the No. 8 sacrificial pit has entered the stage of intensive extraction, and it is also the most difficult stage in the entire extraction work.

And the artifact that everyone is discussing is a bronze altar.

This is the only artifact of the No. 8 sacrificial pit.

In the previous excavation work, only in 1986, when the Sanxingdui sacrificial pit was excavated for the first time, an identical bronze altar was unearthed.

However, compared with the altar that was spit out in 1986, the altar in the No. 8 sacrificial pit is larger and more intact.

The height of the entire altar is 80 centimeters, and this bronze altar should only be half-sectional, and the complete shape should be more than one meter high.

The fragment of the bronze altar is divided into 3 layers, and the residual height is 80 centimeters.

"It's unrealistic to dig down the foundation, and it will affect the whole body."

Qin Zhan, a researcher at the Sichuan Institute of Archaeology, frowned and vetoed Lin Ya's proposal.

As an archaeologist who has always worked with soil, he knows too well the importance of the foundation, there are still so many cultural relics in the No. 8 sacrificial pit, once the soil under the platform is dug up, there will be a risk of the cultural relics falling after the collapse.

He shook his head and made his own suggestion: "The current state of the Bronze Altar is also broken, so let's extract it through segments, take this divine beast first, take it out first, and then we will extract the altar." ”

"Break into two parts, then one part at a time."

After discussing it for a while, everyone felt that they still had to take it step by step, and they recognized Qin Zhan's idea.

After that, everyone seriously thought about the excavation plan, whether there were any loopholes, or whether there were other emergencies, and they rehearsed it in their minds.

After confirming that everything was OK, Lin Ya took a few researchers from the Academy of Social Sciences and began to extract and excavate this altar.

The altar was broken when it was discovered, so the archaeological team planned to extract it in two parts.

The first thing to extract is the small mythical beast at the top, which has a very peculiar shape, like a mixture of various animals, with a torso similar to a horse, a large tail, and a very wide mouth.

It should be a fantasy beast in the myths and legends of Sanxingdui people.

This kind of mythical beast or god based on existing animals is very common in early civilizations around the world.

The "dragon" of China is a fusion of many animal parts.

There is also basalt, which is a fusion of turtles and snakes.

The Sphinx of ancient Egypt, as well as the various gods with animal heads and human bodies, are also the product of fusion.

The little divine beast of this altar should be the same, it is not an animal that once existed.

Because the animals that lived in the Sichuan Basin 3,000 years ago, even if they are extinct, even the bones that are not even fossils will be preserved, so that modern people will not know nothing.

In fact, I am still quite worried about the overall process.

Especially when Lin Ya and Zhuang Yunpeng were in the pit below, they found that in the process of cleaning up, they actually had a little detachment from the base part and were crumbling.

In order to prevent it from falling off during the extraction process, the two hurriedly tied it up with cotton rope.

However, it also took a long time, from 2 o'clock in the afternoon to the last little bit to more than 8 o'clock in the evening.

A very interesting thing was also found during the extraction.

There was a group of people on the surface of the platform, and Lin Ya thought it was three groups of 12 people before.

But when it came time to clean up, they found a 13th person standing in the middle.

On the altar, you can actually see that there is a person in the middle, and it is also the first time I have seen a portrait of this shape in Sanxingdui, a small person carrying a strap, with a strap, the whole reel is tied to his body.

It's very realistic, and it's very cute.

This is also the first time Sanxingdui has found a portrait of this shape.

And the movements of these bronze figures are almost the same, that is, carrying the divine beasts above.

The surrounding 4 bronze figures lifted the beast, and the rest of the Kiritoro either squatted or knelt, and the posture of their hands was not the same.

Chen Han speculated that this was most likely a scene of the ancient Shu people's sacrificial activities.

It is a replica of the Sanxingdui civilization at that time, and it is a very valuable "Sanxingdui sacrificial material"!

It can be seen that the necks of the four bronze men carrying the divine beast are a little crooked, or the situation is the same as the person we usually see carrying the sedan chair.

This detail is handled very well.

Moreover, the wrists, ankle joints, ankle bulges and other small parts of the body of these bronze figures are also very delicately made.

Including the nail covers, including the fangs, they are all made very small, even only a few millimeters!

At the bottom of the altar, there is a hollow square platform, which is equivalent to the base, which is the "lower platform base" in Lin Ya's mouth, and there are some hollow floats on it, which is very exquisite.

All the cultural relics of Sanxingdui, we can not look at it with conventional eyes, that is, it is too easy to bring you a different feeling, especially Sanxingdui's own unique cultural system.

On the whole, the preservation of this altar is relatively good!

It is of great significance for the study of the unique cultural system, sacrificial system, and humanities and society of Sanxingdui civilization.

For example, these 13 bronze people are all dressed differently, which may represent their different status among the ancient Shu people!

This is of great significance for understanding the "social hierarchy" of the ancient Shu Kingdom!