Master Archaeologist

Chapter 12 The Eternal Maternal Love

After Zhuang Yunpeng discovered the jade, it was like a chain reaction.

In the days that followed, Chen Han, Su Sa and the others also began to discover countless pottery, stone, bone, jade objects and jade materials one after another in the F4 investigation.

These unearthed artifacts add up to about sixty pieces.

In addition, they are also completely sure that the F4 detective is indeed a house.

Because with the deepening of the excavation progress, Chen Han found traces of plaster on the walls and ground of the No. F4 exploration building.

Even on the living side of the house site, traces of fire were found.

These two points are enough to prove that F4 is indeed a relic of a house.

Because plastering and roasting with fire are both means for the ancestors of the Neolithic Age to dehumidify the house.

After doing so, the house can be drier and more comfortable to live in, and it is less likely to leak in rainy days.

However, this discovery is not very important to Chen Han and others.

Because they have a more important archaeological discovery!

During a full month and a half of archaeological work.

Except for the first half month, they were busy excavating the unearthed pottery, stone, jade, and utensils.

For the next month, they were all busy cleaning up the bones!

In the inconspicuous investigation of No. F4, including the skeleton of the young woman, Chen Han and others discovered 14 skeletons!
A full 14 skeletons appeared in a house that was no longer than five meters in length and width. This is obviously not a normal situation.

Even a situation that has no easy explanation!

After confirming that all the skeletons in the entire exploratory square had been cleared out without any omissions, Chen Han immediately found his teacher.

After Kong Jianwen heard the news, he brought a large group of people to the F4 inspector at the No. [-] construction site.

Qinghai Archaeological Institute, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Archaeological Institute, Henan Archaeological Institute, National Museum Archaeological Team...

But all the archaeological teams who came to support the Lajia site sent people to follow Kong Jianwen to join in the fun.

The staff responsible for archaeological records, holding long guns and short cannons, carefully took pictures of the large and small bones unearthed in the explorer.

Kong Jianwen couldn't wait to get off the Tanfang, and went straight to the many bones in the Tanfang.

"It's all cleaned up?"

"A total of fourteen?"

Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng quickly followed behind him, and said in a heavy tone: "It's all cleared up, the situation is very complicated."

Very complicated?
Kong Jianwen turned his head and glanced at Chen Han, and he took back some words that were about to be blurted out.

Look at the situation first.

He and the leaders of several other archaeological institutes carefully looked at the situation in the exploration square.

Chen Han on the side also explained in a timely manner: "The bones unearthed in the F4 house site are very different from the previous archaeological discoveries."

"The fourteen skeletons in Tanfang were unearthed, some were lying on their sides with bent limbs, some were prostrate on the ground, some were with their upper limbs intertwined, and some were kneeling on the ground, with different postures, presenting a complex situation."

"It seems to be the state of death in an instant after encountering an irresistible disaster."

Chen Han took the leaders of various archaeological institutes and archaeological teams to the first skeleton unearthed at F4, that is, the one where a young woman and a child were stacked together.

"Look, teacher."

Pointing to the skeleton leaning against the corner of the wall, Chen Han said in a heavy tone: "The mother is holding the baby in her arms, kneeling on the ground, and the head of the baby and the mother are leaning against each other."

"The mother hugged the child tightly, and the child's head was buried deep in the mother's chest."

"It's a picture of helplessness and fear when disaster strikes suddenly."

In fact, Chen Han didn't need to introduce too much, when they saw the skeleton in the corner, they already understood everything.

Even though 4000 years have passed, the mother's expression of helplessness, panic, and begging for help from God when the disaster suddenly struck is still vivid and moving.

Not just her.

About a meter away to the left of this skeleton, another skeleton is even more moving.

A mother is kneeling on the ground, using her body to protect the baby in her arms.

The baby in her arms is holding her mother's waist tightly with both hands. The mother's face is facing upwards, with her jaw stretched forward, as if she is still raising her head and praying to the heaven before she dies, to give the young child a way out.

Just from the movements of her body, she seemed to be able to hear her helplessly praying to heaven.

In addition, in the southeast corner of the ruins, there are the skeletons of a family of four, and they are all huddled in a corner.

The outermost skeleton appears to have broad limbs, and it can be seen that it should be a male.

There is also a slightly thinner female skeleton in its arms, which should be his wife.

In the arms of his wife were the skeletons of two children.

It is worth mentioning that, even after so long, the corpse is only the skeleton, but the facial expression of this man is still clearly identifiable.

He opened his mouth wide, and seemed to let out piercing screams, and he also seemed to be roaring to the sky, roaring and questioning the sky, why did he treat him like this.

Similarly, at the root of the north wall of the house site, there is a skeleton lying on the ground with its arms outstretched.

And under her body, there were still the skeletons of three children.

Here is another mother, protecting her child under her body.

What they went through is unimaginable.

I can't even imagine how panic they must have felt at that time!

But even more cruel.

These mothers and fathers who tried to use their bodies to support their children and leave some hope of shelter for their children, even if they tried their best, they could only allow the children around them to survive for a moment.

Six adults, eight children, a family of old and young, mothers protecting children, relatives embracing each other, no survivors!

But in the face of this sudden and unknown disaster, the scene where he tried his best to save the child at the first moment, was extremely moving and sighed in astonishment.

All the archaeologists, scholars, and researchers present at the scene became silent after seeing the tragic situation in the F4, and were deeply impressed by this maternal love that spans time and space.

Perhaps these people, in the eyes of modern people, are just a group of backward and ignorant "primitives" who lived 4000 years ago.

But the unchanging maternal love shown in them deeply shocked everyone.

From burial to excavation, a full 4000 years have passed.

Over the past 4000 years, the vicissitudes of life have become mulberry fields.

But these ancestors who used to run on the land 4000 years ago, flowed the same blood and had the same culture as us.

But at the last moment of life, with the last instinct shown, he told us about the maternal love that human beings have not changed for thousands of years!

This love has penetrated time, life and death, and eras, and it remains unchanged from time immemorial!
(End of this chapter)