Master Archaeologist

Chapter 13 Pompeii?

The remains excavated from the F4 house site shocked everyone at the entire archaeological site of the Lajia site.

Wave after wave, the leaders of each archaeological institute brought their archaeologists to pay respects to the maternal love that spanned 4000 years.

At the same time, the results of the DNA test came out soon.

The remains unearthed in house site F4 have a relatively close matrilineal blood relationship, but it is not a matrilineal clan society.

In addition, according to DNA traceability, it can be determined that they are related to the modern Han population and the Tibeto-Burman population.

That is to say, the ancestors in the Lajia ruins are indeed the direct ancestors of the modern Chinese people.

And with the continuous advancement of the archaeological process.

Something happened that shocked the archaeologists at the scene even more.

More and more remains were unearthed in the No. [-] construction site.

They are not lying in cemeteries or ash pits like the people in other ruins, but scattered in squares, houses, streets, and under city walls in such a mess.

Under a city wall site, archaeologists from the Henan Institute of Archeology also discovered a large number of remains.

According to the shape and movement of the remains at the scene, it can be inferred that they should have been preparing to climb over the city wall to escape, but unfortunately they did not escape from death in the end.

One of the skeletons was lying on the ground with her arms outstretched. The archaeologists removed four or five boulders from her back, and under her body were the skeletons of two children.

Here is another mother who protects her child under her body.

While once again being moved and impressed by the mother's love that has gone through 4000 years and remains unchanged since ancient times.

The archaeologists at the scene also had a doubt in their hearts.

What kind of sudden disaster did these ancestors of the La family who died unnaturally suffer so that they were buried in the soil in an instant?
Coincidentally, a place suddenly came to mind in everyone's mind.

"Pompeii"!
Pompeii is an ancient city in the Roman period 2000 years ago.

In 79 AD, the ancient city of Pompeii ushered in a sudden and huge disaster.

Mount Vesuvius erupts!

The surging magma and the sky full of volcanic ash submerged the city of Pompeii at the foot of Mount Vesuvius in an instant.

The entire time of Pompeii was frozen at this moment.

It was not discovered by archaeologists until 2000 years later.

When it was unearthed, due to being buried by volcanic ash, the streets and houses in Pompeii were relatively well preserved, and the people wrapped in volcanic ash kept the form of the moment of death, shocking!

Desperate, panicked, frightened, at a loss, bewildered...

Human remains devoured by volcanic magma shocked the whole world when they were unearthed!
Details such as the pained expressions, hairstyles and clothing of the victims buried 2000 years ago are still clearly visible.

The unearthed remains of the ancient city of Pompeii are undoubtedly very similar to the remains of the current Lajia site.

They all encountered sudden and devastating disasters, and the entire city was frozen at the moment of destruction.

Speaking of which, such an inscription was also found in the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii.

"Nothing lasts forever."

However, the Lajia site, which is very similar to the ancient city of Pompeii, told the younger generation 2000 years later with facts.

There are still things that can exist forever in this world.

For example, this maternal love has been flowing in human blood for thousands of years!
However, the destruction of the Lajia site is quite different from that of Pompeii.

Because of the volcanic ash that can be seen everywhere when the ancient city of Pompeii was unearthed, it can be determined almost effortlessly that the city is in the midst of destruction and volcanic eruption.

But the Lajia ruins were destroyed in an instant because of some disaster, and the archaeologists at the scene still have no clue for the time being.

Even, this question may become a problem that has troubled everyone for several years and cannot be solved.

Archeology is always accompanied by one question after another.

And it is not an easy task to unravel these secrets buried underground.

A month later.

The excavation of the Lajia site is progressing faster and faster, and more and more cultural relics and bones have been unearthed.

Ditches, altars, tombs, squares, large houses, pottery areas...

Buildings and ruins of settlements of various prehistoric civilizations have been discovered.

Chen Han and his team of four, after finishing the excavation work of the F4 exploration site, also switched to another exploration site to continue the archaeological excavation work.

This time, Kong Jianwen arranged for them to be the F20 detective.

The beginning of "F" naturally shows that the site in Tanfangli is still a house site.

In fact, the more important places like altars, squares, and burial pits are not likely to be assigned to the four of them to dig.

Their qualifications are too shallow, except for Zhang Jianbo, who has worked in the field of archaeology for ten years, among the four.

The remaining Zhuang Yunpeng and Su Sa are both PhD candidates.

Chen Han is a master and doctoral student, and he doesn't have much practical experience yet.

So they can only be allocated some housing sites to excavate.

Anyway, the houses accounted for the largest proportion in the Lajia ruins, and the houses found now have been ranked F40+.

Squatting in F20, Zhuang Yunpeng chatted with Chen Han while cleaning up the soil layer: "Hey, I don't know if the excavations by the teacher and the others at the altar have made any important discoveries."

Chen Han, who was carefully cleaning up a stone tool, was very calm: "If there is a heavyweight discovery, it will immediately cause a sensation on the entire construction site, and we will know it by then."

"Instead of caring about this, senior brother, you should care more about the work in front of us."

"I feel that the address of house F20 is unusual."

"There are 12 pillar holes in three rows and four rows, with an area of ​​about 30 square meters, which can be regarded as a big house in prehistoric civilization."

"I have a hunch we might find something good!"

For some reason, after taking over the Tan Fang, Chen Han had an indescribable feeling, it could be said to be intuition, or it could be said to be caused by emotion.

He just always felt that this exploration was not easy.

It's just that it's not simple, but I don't have the slightest clue.

During the excavation work, the unearthed situation of this house site is basically the same as that of other house sites.

A lot of stone tools, bone tools, pottery, and lacquer ware have been found, but none of them are very precious. There are also a large number of similar cultural relics unearthed in other house sites.

The only surprise was that Chen Han found a rectangular bag-shaped ash pit on the east side of the house.

After digging deep into the pit, some traces of wooden boards were found inside, so it can be speculated that this ash pit should have been a cellar for storage.

This means that the ancestors of the La family have preliminarily mastered the method of "cellaring", which is more conducive to long-term food preservation!

However, Chen Han subconsciously felt that there was still something hidden in the F20 house, waiting for him to uncover it.

(End of this chapter)