Master Archaeologist

Chapter 202 Not a Nine-story Demon Tower
With the help of technological equipment, Tan Fang was finalized very quickly.

不过两天的功夫，就划好了一个5米X5米的探方，四个5米X10米的探方，3个10米X10米的探方。

These probes form an approximately square area, covering the west and north walls of the ground cemetery building.

Yes, this Xinxuewei Tomb No. [-] is a large tomb with an overall structure including two parts above ground and underground.

The aboveground part is the cemetery, which is composed of tomb walls, sacrificial buildings, seals, and corridors. The specific situation of the underground part is not yet clear.

It is also because of the existence of the above-ground part that it was targeted by rampant tomb robbers.

The entire Reshui tomb group can cover an area of ​​about [-] to [-] square kilometers, spanning both sides of the Chahan Wusu River.

Thieves can always find an opportunity to steal some of the tombs.

A hundred secrets will eventually have a sparseness, only a thousand days to be a thief, how can a thousand days to guard against a thief.

However, the fact that so many exploratory areas have been planned for the time being does not mean that this excavation work will only excavate such a large place.

This is only a stage of excavation work, and there is a high probability that the expansion will continue.

How long it will take to excavate and how large an area will be excavated can only be determined in combination with actual archaeological results.

In the early morning of March 3, Kong Jianwen took the archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, joined the team from the Qinghai Institute, and set off for the excavation area.

The staff of the Qinghai Institute are old acquaintances with everyone.

Some of them participated in the excavation of the Lajia site with them.

After meeting, everyone chatted casually and relaxedly.

The excavation project this time is another big project, which can fully accommodate the two archaeological institutes to intervene together, so the Qinghai Institute has no dissatisfaction with the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences.

The captain of the Qinghai Archaeological Institute is also an old acquaintance of Chen Han and the others. Li Chunchao, the deputy director, with his hands behind his back, said while leading everyone to the excavation site:
"The cemetery of this stolen tomb is nearly square in plane, surrounded by yíng walls, 33 meters long from east to west and 31 meters wide from north to south."

The basic meaning of the word "Ying" is cemetery, tomb.

As the name suggests, the "tomb wall" is a wall surrounding the cemetery.

Li Chunchao continued: "There are sacrificial buildings in the northeast corner of the cemetery, and there are seals and corridors in the cemetery."

"The terrain of the cemetery is high in the north and bottom in the south, and the height difference between the north and the south is about 1.6 meters."

"The tomb is located on the mountain front, the terrain is high in the north and low in the south."

"Due to the collapse of the tomb, which has been damaged by repeated robbery and backfilling, the tomb's location is sunken like a pot bottom within the scope of the tomb walls around the surface of the tomb."

"So, the first thing we need to confirm is the stratum accumulation in this excavation area."

"Understood!" Everyone nodded in unison.

After arriving at the excavation area, each of us took a Luoyang shovel and started to do the familiar exploration work.

Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng were still old partners, and in a team of two, they began to drill an exploration hole in the southeast corner of the tomb group, near the location of Fengtu.

One shovel, one shovel, another shovel.

As the Luoyang shovel continued to bring out the soil under the excavation area, Chen Han gradually had a clear understanding of the stratum accumulation in the excavation area.

The first layer is the modern layer, yellowish-brown fine sandy soil, loose and pure, the surface layer is light gray, with many grass roots, nothing special.

On the second layer, there is yellowish-brown silt. The soil is finer, softer, and purer. There are obvious horizontal alluvial layers, indicating that it should be formed by the silt washed out by the river all the year round.

On the third floor, it turned into dark brown silt. The soil is slightly softer and purer, but there is nothing special about it. It should be a platform formed by earlier erosion.

It wasn't until the fourth floor that Chen Han began to make some special discoveries.

The fourth layer of soil is not silt, but yellow-brown soil, not to mention the hard soil, and a small amount of light gray hard soil.

Near the fourth floor, he also found a small amount of gravel and bone fragments!
This shows that the fourth layer of soil is already very close to the soil layer where the tomb is located.

If nothing else, the fifth layer of soil should be the horizontal soil layer of the tomb!
Sure enough, when the fifth layer of dark brown soil was hit, the soil was hard and pure, with small thin layers formed. Judging from the knowledge Chen Han had learned in school, this should be the soil layer on the trampled surface formed by trampling.

Generally, this kind of soil layer will appear in the ruins.

For example, in the tribes of the Neolithic period, because people had been active in the squares and roads in the tribal area for a long time, the soil was trampled on for a long time, and a relatively hard and compact trampled surface would be formed.

Miraculously, this tomb also has a stepping surface.

This shows that when the tomb was built, many people stepped on it frequently for a long time, so the ground was trampled so firmly.

as predicted.

Chen Han's guess is correct.

Although he and Zhuang Yunpeng were in charge of this area, the excavation holes dug did not find the tomb passage.

But other archaeologists discovered the location of the tomb passage in the fifth layer of soil!

Once the location of the tomb passage is discovered, then all subsequent exploration will have a target.

Soon, with the concerted efforts of dozens of archaeologists, the condition of the tomb passage was discovered.

Located on the east side of the tomb, this tomb passage is slightly inverted dustpan-shaped in plane, with a direction of 103 degrees, a slope of 18-24 degrees, a length of 23 meters and a width of 1.5-10.6 meters.

However, because the tomb passage is overlaid by the tomb walls, cloisters, adobe walls and sealing soil on the ground, the tomb passage cannot be excavated directly, and the integrity of the above-ground cemetery area will be destroyed.

Therefore, after discussion, the two responsible persons decided to divide the tomb passage into two sections to be excavated, and the two archaeological institutes were respectively responsible for the excavation.

The Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences is responsible for the excavation and cleaning of the eastern section of the tomb passage.

The eastern tomb passage is 8.9 meters long from east to west and 6.9-10.6 meters wide from north to south. It is a big project!

However, the size of this tomb is still smaller than that of the "nine-story demon pagoda" excavated in the 80s, Laoxuewei No. [-] tomb.

Laoxuewei No. 33 tomb is 55 meters high, 37 meters long from east to west, and 3.5 meters wide from north to south. The average height of each floor is more than [-] meters.

In comparison, the new Xuewei No. [-] tomb is inferior to the old Xuewei No. [-] tomb in terms of size and shape.

the most important is.

This new Xuewei No. [-] tomb, after discovering the tomb passage, can be sure that its structure is different from the "nine-story demon tower" structure of the old Xuewei No. [-] tomb.

Although I don't know the specific structure, but there is such a long tomb passage, it must not be a tower structure from top to bottom.

Instead, like the tombs of nobles in the mainland, a tomb passage was dug to the bottom, and then a tomb was built underneath.

This made Chen Han and the others very sorry.

When excavating the "nine-story demon tower" in the last century, they were not even tadpoles, and missed this big scene.

Finally, there is another large tomb to be excavated in the Shuhui Tombs.

Originally, it was thought that a large tomb similar to the "nine-story demon tower" would be excavated.

Unexpectedly, there would be no second nine-story demon tower.

This made Chen Han very puzzled.

What kind of tomb system is used for this Tuyuhun?

The nine-story demon pagoda is a special culture that is obviously different from the tombs of the Central Plains.

If the nine-story demon pagoda is the burial culture of Tuyuhun's own nation, then why didn't other tombs use this special burial system?

Why was the nine-story demon pagoda built like this?And so unique, unique?

(End of this chapter)