Guanghan, in the No. 3 Ballroom of the Mulanjiu Hotel.

At this time, the banquet hall has been set up to look like a large press conference.

On the temporary rostrum, more than a dozen heavyweight experts and scholars from the Sanxingdui archaeological project sat down.

The audience was filled with more than 100 media reporters from all over the country.

Today, the Sanxingdui archaeological excavation project officially held a press conference for the report of the results of the stage.

The excavation work of Sanxingdui is a thing that will take a long time, and it cannot be completed in a short time.

For example, in the field archaeology within Sanxingdui, the annual excavation season is almost never dedicated to the development of the conference to announce the results.

Because of the things that have been excavated, the mysteries will only increase, and there will be no phased discoveries.

For example, the sacrificial area outside the No. 8 pit is still being excavated, and it is not completely certain whether these buildings are sacrificial buildings or not.

Therefore, the main focus of today's press conference is the report on the excavation results of the last six sacrificial pits, which have been basically completed.

Cai Lun, director of the Sanxingdui Institute of Archaeology, sat in the center of the rostrum and said with a smile: "According to the carbon 14 dating method, the burial age of most of the sacrificial pits is within the time range of 3148-2966 years ago, which is roughly equivalent to the late Shang Dynasty. ”

"And these sacrificial pits were abandoned after they were used and landfilled, and no one bothered them for two thousand years, and no one came to live near the Sanxingdui site until the Song Dynasty."

"The No. 3 and No. 4 pits unearthed the most bronze artifacts, especially the No. 3 pit, which unearthed 293 relatively complete bronze artifacts."

"At present, the most eye-catching thing is a bronze domed kneeling figure, which consists of two parts."

"The lower part is a kneeling person wearing a Sanxingdui mask, and the upper part is a person wearing a large mouth, and the two parts are likely to be produced in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River respectively."

"It shows that Sanxingdui people used the Yangtze River at that time to communicate extensively with many places upstream and downstream, not just in the Sichuan Basin."

"The No. 4 pit unearthed textiles, found a thread made of hemp next to a bronze vessel, and was even more shocked to find silk residues, which shows that silk is really the logo of Chinese culture."

"From the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River basin to the Sichuan Basin, silk was used to make clothes from the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age."

"China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia. There is the beauty of uniforms, which is called Hua. ”

"Our Chinese civilization, as early as the late Neolithic Age, has paid great attention to etiquette and clothing, and has created a splendid etiquette and clothing culture!"

"Our botanical archaeologists analyzed the soil samples of Pit No. 4 and basically restored which plants grew in Sanxingdui more than 3,000 years ago."

"There are bamboo, reeds, teffs, sedges, palms, and some that have not yet been studied."

"This shows that in the Sichuan Basin more than 3,000 years ago, the climate should be closer to the tropics, and the winter should not be as cold as it is now."

"It's a warm and humid place, and it's like spring all year round!"

"In addition, a lot of ivory has been unearthed in the Sanxingdui sacrificial pit, which shows that Sanxingdui people have true love for ivory and use it in a large number of sacrificial activities."

"Moreover, this restart excavation is of great significance to the interpretation of the Sanxingdui civilization."

"The bronze altar found in the No. 3 pit, the jade with the pattern of the sacred tree, the kneeling figure found in the No. 4 pit, and the pottery pointed bottom pot are all cultural relics that have not been seen in the No. 1 and No. 2 priest pits before, reflecting the aesthetic art style and world concept of Sanxingdui culture."

"Archaeological work on several other sacrificial pits is also well underway."

"Pit No. 5 is about to complete the field cleanup, and archaeologists are preparing to extract the accumulation in the pit back to the laboratory for fine cleaning."

"Up to now, the No. 5 pit has unearthed a total of 19 pieces of nearly complete gold, 2 pieces of jade, 2 pieces of bronze, and nearly 300 pieces of tooth decay fragments, including gold masks, bird-shaped gold ornaments, olive-shaped jade, round gold leaf, jade beads and cloud thunder pattern tooth carving."

"The most special thing about Pit No. 6 is that archaeologists found a wooden box in it, and cinnabar was found inside the box, and wooden tools were also found."

At present, the "wooden box" and wooden objects have been extracted back to the laboratory for fine excavation. ”

"Up to now, only two pieces of wood, including a "wooden box", and one jade knife have been unearthed in Pit No. 6. ”

However, the "wooden box" has not yet been cleaned up, so whether there are more cultural relics unearthed still needs to be clarified. ”

"Why do we use a sacrificial pit to bury this wooden box, and whether there is something very important to the Sanxingdui people in the wooden box, we are trying to answer."

"A layer of ivory is buried on the upper layer of the No. 7 pit, and a lot of artifacts of other materials are placed below, the number of ivory is expected to be nearly 200, and the artifacts below include jade stone ge, zhang, bao and bronze heads, collared bi, turtle back ornaments, etc."

"Archaeologists are currently extracting the upper tusks and expect to extract all the tusks and begin extracting the artifacts buried below in October."

"At present, 1 piece of bronze ware, 3 pieces of gold artifact, 5 pieces of jade artifact have been unearthed in the No. 7 pit, and 80 ivory pieces have been extracted, and typical cultural relics include bronze heads with black colors, fish-shaped gold foil, etc."

"The situation of the No. 8 pit is similar to that of the No. 7 pit, and the cultural relics that can be confirmed include bronze heads, copper masks, bronze statues, copper squares, bronze altars, bronze beasts, bronze statues, jade medals, jade ge, jade collars, stone chimes, etc."

"Ivory extraction is currently underway and it is expected that all the ivory will be extracted within two months."

"At present, the approximate complete artifacts extracted include 54 bronze artifacts, 349 gold artifacts, 199 jade artifacts, 34 stone artifacts, and 66 ivory roots, and typical cultural relics include small bronze convex bird-like figures, gold masks, jade medals, stone chimes, etc."

"With the continuous advancement of Sanxingdui archaeological excavations, artifacts with Sanxingdui style have gradually formed a system, revealing to us the height reached by Sanxingdui society in the field of spiritual world and handicraft technology, and allowing us to partially understand the state of ancient Shu society."

"With the deepening of research, there will be more and more wonderful research results to be disclosed to everyone, and the face of Sanxingdui culture will become clearer and clearer."

No superfluous nonsense, it's all work.

Director Cai Lun neatly reported to the media reporters the current excavation of pits 3 to 8, and after the phased results were reported, the other archaeologists and experts sitting on both sides of him gave enthusiastic applause.

Then, everyone stood up one after another, regardless of the reporters in front of them who raised their hands to ask questions, and left in a chic manner.

Chen Han, Zhuang Yunpeng and other "experts" who acted as "background boards" were also nervous one by one.

Are you kidding.

Journalists and the media are the most difficult people in the world to deal with.

But if they catch them, the naïve questions that they talk about, and most of them are very laymen, and have nothing to do with archaeology, will really drive them crazy.

With this kung fu and the reporters, it is better to go back to the archaeological base as soon as possible and dig up a bronze!