Sanxingdui has still not found any clues of high-level tombs in the ancient Shu Kingdom.

The discovery of these suspected ship coffins can provide a new research direction for the study of Sanxingdui people's tomb culture.

Although the coffin of the ship on the Moon Bay construction site, like the one found at the Jinsha site, has been completely decayed and clean, it looks like a piece of soil that is a little darker than other soils.

But the fact that the outer coffin is rotten does not mean that the bones and burial goods inside will decay with it.

Like the Sanxingdui culture, pottery, stoneware, and bronze tools are mainly used.

It just so happens that these three kinds of utensils are the most resistant to time consumption.

This probe numbered 4824 is very valuable for research!

"What is the best way to excavate this kind of tomb?"

"In the past, the excavation was all done at once, and the filling status was not clear."

"Let's play something new this time."

Xie Dafei put his hands behind his back and said to Deng Xin casually.

Deng Xin was a little confused: "Isn't it just half of the excavation, slowly clearing down, what new tricks can there be?"

"Think about it." Xie Dafei smiled and said, "You should think about it, how to solve this excavation tomb."

He said it on purpose.

Deng Xin is still a newcomer in the field of archaeology, and not long after graduation, he is in a time when he needs to be "adjusted", so he should use his brain more.

Chen Han stood aside, very wise and did not raise his opinion.

He also saw that this was the subject that Senior Brother Xie gave to Deng Xin.

"There are four or five neatly arranged ship coffins, which are still very precious."

Deng Xin took a notebook and wrote and painted on it, and at the same time kept thinking about how to dig this probe.

Good ruins can produce a lot of things, and even a piece of dirt has a point of study.

How to maximize the value of "squeezing" the coffins in front of him is something that Deng Xin needs to seriously consider.

"Pay attention to whether there are any traces of human bones inside, and report back if there is a situation."

Xie Dafei put down such a paragraph, and prepared to take Chen Han away from the construction site with his hands behind his back.

The next thing is that Deng Xin is going to be distressed, he only looks at the results.

"Qi Huo, gone."

Greeting Chen Han, the two left the construction site and rushed back to the construction site of the No. 8 sacrificial pit.

Xie Dafei's trip to the pit today is over temporarily.

Chen Han also wants to go back to work.

As soon as they returned to the No. 8 pit, before they entered the shed, they first heard a news on the construction site on the periphery.

On the site of the sacrificial area, archaeologists found several tombs from the Song Dynasty...

Well, during the excavation of the site, it is quite normal to find some tombs from a later age on it.

After all, it is impossible for a place to have only one or two hundred people living in thousands of years.

Otherwise, there would be no such thing as a cultural layer.

Unfortunately, in the sacrificial area of the No. 8 sacrificial pit, tombs from the Song Dynasty were found.

The specifications of the tombs are not very high, and it is estimated that they are also the burials of civilians.

It's just that the position is stacked on top of the sacrificial area.

Now that it's been dug up, it's definitely going to be cleaned up.

This coincidence unexpectedly confirmed Xie Dafei's previous cultural distinction.

The Moon Bay construction site and the No. 8 pit are not far away, almost the same place.

When the cultural layer was divided before, it was said that the modern layer went down directly to the cultural layer of the Song Dynasty, and there was no cultural layer in the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

The discovery of several tombs now just shows that this cultural layer is not wrong.

After the Song Dynasty, there should be no more human activities in the No. 8 sacrificial pit and Moon Bay.

Of course, the absence of human activity does not mean that the area is abandoned.

Maybe it was used as a ploughing field.

Farming is relatively unchanging, because day after day, year after year, food is grown, ploughed, and replanted, and the soil layer does not accumulate upwards, which is relatively "natural".

In fact, the area from modern Moon Bay to No. 8 sacrificial pit is a large stretch of farmland.

And I heard that these farmlands have been cultivated for at least a few hundred years.

"Found a tomb from the Song Dynasty?"

"Let's clean up and dig up."

Xie Dafei was not surprised to give a few orders.

......

"Senior Brother Chen, the divine beast found in the pit before has been cleared out."

"It's kind of special!"

As soon as he returned to the shed of the No. 8 sacrificial pit, before Chen Han put on protective clothing, Zhuang Yunpeng came up and said.

In the half day he went out, everyone also did a big thing.

Successfully extracted a large Liren Divine Beast!

And it is the largest of the many animal-shaped bronzes unearthed in Sanxingdui so far!

Large mouth, standing ears, curly hair, thin waist, long tail, small thick legs...... This mythical beast can be said to be "strong" and outstanding.

Since the first excavation of Sanxingdui in 1986, the unearthed mythical beasts are all petite, about 20 to 30 centimeters long.

And the "large Liren Divine Beast" in the No. 8 pit is about 1 meter long and high, and the size is very huge, so it is the only one at present!

The most special thing is that this huge bronze divine beast has horns on top of its head, and there is a person standing on the horns!

This person was wearing a robe and was thinner, and according to Zhuang Yunpeng, this "leader" may be controlling or controlling this great divine beast.

Man standing on the top of the beast, in the worldview of human beings, is a symbol of conquering and controlling the animal.

Presumably, the worldview of Sanxingdui people should be the same.

What's even more special is that there is also a sacred tree carved on a relatively wide surface on the chest of the divine beast.

This tree is directly cast on it, and it can be seen that the Sanxingdui people worship the sacred tree, or have regarded the sacred tree as a kind of divine existence.

This is a new type that has never appeared in the Sanxingdui site.

However, this unearthed artifact provides evidence for the relationship between Sanxingdui and Jinsha sites.

This unearthed artifact reflects that the ancient Shu people of Sanxingdui and the ancient Shu people of Jinsha have a common belief and worship.

Because of the ancient Shu people at the Jinsha site, there are also many sacred trees on the utensils, which represents the worship of the big tree!

Speaking of which, the style and artistic style of Sanxingdui and Jinsha unearthed artifacts are really very similar.

The shoulder-carrying ivory-patterned jade unearthed at the Jinsha site depicts two groups of figures wearing high crowns, square ears, and robes and carrying ivory on their shoulders.

The pattern is similar to the pattern on the jade border zhang of Sanxingdui's "sacrificial mountain map", which clearly shows people the scene of the ancient Shu people using ivory for sacrificial activities.

In particular, the human head is very similar to the bronze human head at the Sanxingdui site, and they may be shamans or shamans.

In fact, there is a saying in the academic circles that these sacrificial pits unearthed at present may not be sacrificial pits.

Rather, it is a burial pit.

According to its age, and many of the artifacts in it have traces of destruction, and the same artifact has been divided into several parts and placed in different sacrificial pits.

For example, the bronze statue of the top snake body is spelled out with the remnants of the bronze bird's foot figure unearthed in the No. 2 "sacrificial pit" in 1986.

Does this mean that perhaps the Sanxingdui people suffered some major changes in the late Shang Dynasty, forcing them to bury all the important bronzes in the royal capital, and then migrated to the Jinsha area with the main people, and created the later Jinsha culture?