The rich geological layers of the Song Dynasty went further down, and they came directly to the strata of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The strata of the Shang and Zhou dynasties are distributed in the east of Tanfang in the west and low in the east, and a small number of pottery pieces have been unearthed, among which there are hard-grained pottery pieces, and the shape of the recognizable vessel has bowls and bowls, which are a little shabby.

It can be seen that during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there should have been traces of human activities in the middle and early Ming ruins, but they did not become a densely populated area.

Think about it, at that time, this was the land of Wuyue, and in the impression of the Shang and Zhou people, it was a barbarian land, and all the people who lived were a group of barbarians with tattoos, and it was normal for there to be no human population.

Until the lowest layer, that is, the soil layer where it is staying now, it is the stratum of the Liangzhu culture period, which is not only distributed in the east of Tanfang in the west and low in the east.

Moreover, more pottery pieces have been unearthed, mainly argillaceous gray pottery, sand-filled red pottery, and the recognizable vessel shapes have fish fin-shaped tripod feet, "T" shaped tripod feet, circle-foot plates, beans, skulls, vessel covers, etc., and the items are very rich.

Even below this layer, the ruins H1 and H2 are superimposed, that is, two ash pits are pressed.

Ash pits are a common relic in archaeological excavations. Because the pit is filled with gray soil, it is called an ash pit.

Ash pits are formed when ancient people used abandoned cellars, wells or buildings to dump garbage, and the soil in the garbage turned gray. The soil in the ash pit is generally softer and darker than the soil in the cultural layer, and the content is richer.

According to the shape, characteristics and relics of the pit, the nature and age of the ash pit can be determined, which is an important material for studying the economic life of ancient people.

And below this layer, the soil layer further down is raw soil, which has no archaeological significance.

It can't be said that it is meaningless, maybe digging down can dig into the soil layer from a million years ago, maybe there will be fossils, but obviously this is not what this archaeological project is looking for.

Therefore, the 22 exploration parties finally stayed in the strata of the Liangzhu culture period.

After digging the Liangzhu culture layer, in the excavation area of 1100 square meters, 1 earthen platform during the Liangzhu culture period was revealed, 4 tombs, 1 ash pit, 1 red clay accumulation were found on the top of the earthen platform, and 2 wells, 18 ash pits and 3 ash ditches were found and cleaned on the periphery of the earthen platform.

Yes, burial mounds were also found!

A large number of jade scraps, semi-finished jade products, fragments, gravel stones, grinding stones, drilling tools and carving tools related to jade making have been unearthed in the abandoned pile, and it is basically certain that this is a jade making workshop.

However, in the vicinity of the workshop, tombs were also found, which caused a lot of confusion for archaeological work.

How could anyone be buried around here?

To use a modern analogy, it's like someone who buried himself in a factory after he died, or next to the factory, what is the situation?

Love this jade workshop deeply? Death to be with us?

Most of these tombs are rectangular pit tombs with straight walls and flat bottoms.

Among them, the M1 tomb is 2.07 meters long, about 0.64~0.71 meters wide, and only 0.06 meters deep.

What does it mean, that is, in the Liangzhu period, this tomb was shallow to dig a layer, maybe ten centimeters deep, the deepest could not be more than 20 centimeters, and then buried people in it.

Over time, the geology changed, and it appeared that the depth was only 6 centimeters.

This relieved some of the doubts of Kong Jianwen and others.

At least judging from the M1 tomb, the people buried near the jade workshop are estimated to be a few unlucky people, because something died in the jade workshop, and the status is very low, maybe they are very ordinary civilians, or even the slave class, so they were buried directly on the spot.

If you die there, you will be buried directly there, and you will not stay long.

It seems that the Liangzhu people still have some experience in epidemic prevention, and they know that they can't let the dead stay around for too long, so as not to be infected by some infectious things on the corpse.

Of course, such a shallow "grave pit" must have no traces of burial tools, and it is difficult to put a coffin a few centimeters deep.

In fact, not to mention the burial tools, there are no bones to be found in the pit, and there are no bones left at all.

The only ones that could stay were some burial goods.

Yes, when the burial goods were discovered, Chen Han couldn't help but be puzzled!

Because the burial goods are quite abundant.

In the burial pit, which is two meters long and only 70 centimeters wide, 13 burial goods were unearthed.

Among them, there are 10 pieces of jade, including 1 bracelet, 5 cones, 1 semicircular ornament, 2 pipes, and 1 jade, of which 3 jade taper pieces are grouped out of the head.

There are 3 pieces of pottery, which are pots, circle-foot plates, and tripods, and the pottery is poorly preserved.

3 pieces of jade taper in a group out of the head, what is this concept?

This shows that this Liangzhu man buried here is at least at the level of being able to wear a "crown"!

Although no jade crown has been found, it is possible that he was once buried wearing a crown made of bamboo, wood, or silk fabric.

Later, due to the passage of time, the organic matter was completely mixed with the soil, and only the jade taper, which could not be decomposed, was still on the head.

This is why there is such a situation, there is a jade taper, but there is no jade crown.

Judging from the current excavation of the Liangzhu tomb.

Jade crowns are not for everyone.

At the very least, it had to be worn by the royal family and important priests who held divine power.

Generally, it is excavated in the tomb of the anti-mountain king in the innermost city of the ancient city of Liangzhu, or the Jiangjiashan cemetery next to the inner layer, and the suspected theocracy representatives buried near the important altar of Liangzhu.

Only these people can wear something that is suspected to be a jade crown.

But!

This does not mean the "crown" of the Liangzhu people, only the material of jade.

Rank, class.

This is the earliest thing that was born in the embryonic stage of human society.

Specific to the various official positions in later generations, as well as the official uniforms and official seals corresponding to various official positions, it is a kind of hierarchical distinction.

Low-level officials used copper and stone for seals, middle-level officials used silver, high-ranking princes used gold, and the emperor used jade.

In the ancient system of Liangzhu, the "crown" should also be a very important artifact, and there is a hierarchy.

The high-level ruling class can wear a crown made of jade, and a large number of jade tapers are inserted on the crown as accessories.

Well, it looks like the Indians have feathers on their heads, in short, they are like hedgehogs, showing power.

And the nobles of the lower level may not be able to use jade, but they can use other lower-level things to make crowns.

And this lower-level thing may be difficult to preserve, even if it is not a silk fabric, it may be a crown made of bamboo or wood.

Of course, to be able to wear a "crown" of this level is definitely not an ordinary person, at least a nobleman.

However, in this jade workshop, how can the owner of Tomb M1, who is almost the same as civilians, can have so many jade burial goods, plus something suspected of being a "crown"?

This is not in line with the system!