Master Archaeologist

Chapter 210

A stele without words left Chen Han speechless.

"What's the situation?"

After grunting, Chen Han moved his gaze down to the messy altar.

The main burial chamber visited by tomb robbers is obviously not neat and orderly.

It has long been unknown what the sacrifices on the altar were.

On the altar, there are many gadgets.

"Bronze containers, gold ornaments on the front bridge of the saddle, gilded wooden panels, gilt copper foam nail box panels, gilt and silver lacquered plates, iron arrowheads, crystals, conch shells and small gold and silver ornaments..."

After Chen Han reached out and pulled off the dust on the altar, he saw these things scattered on the altar.

Obviously, although these things are placed on the altar, they are definitely not tributes for the sacrifice.

Whose family sacrifices with nail box boards, iron arrowheads, conch shells, and gold and silver ornaments?

In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the sacrifices used for sacrifices were generally three animals + gold.

The gold here is not gold ornaments, but pieces of simple and rough gold cakes, which are called 酎 (zhòu) gold.

That is, the tribute offered by the princes of the Han Dynasty to the court for sacrificial offerings.

Shochu is a high-quality wine that is brewed repeatedly by adding raw materials three times from January to August.

The wine is made on the first day of the first month, and it is made in August, and it is called wine.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty stipulated that every August in the capital Chang'an, when offering wine and wine to the Gaozu Temple, the princes and princes should offer gold sacrifices according to the population of the country.

That is the system of "Golden Law".

In fact, this law is not only for the princes and princes to offer gold to their ancestors, but also a way to effectively control the assets of the princes and princes.

This group of nobles cannot be allowed to have too much money.

Otherwise, they are too rich, and the central government will worry that they will manufacture weapons privately and enter the customs to become emperors.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once dismissed more than 100 titles of marquises on the grounds that the purity of the gold was not enough!

This is still a very good excuse to attack the nobles of Liehou!

After the Han Dynasty, the custom of offering sacrifices with gold gradually disappeared, replaced by thin offerings.

That is to say, it is enough to use some meat, fruit and other sacrifices, and there is no need to engage in valuables.

But no matter how you sacrifice, you will definitely not take these jewelry, crystals, conch shells, or even iron arrowheads.
Obviously, these things should have been placed in the coffin or elsewhere in the main tomb.

Then after the tomb robbers entered, because the altar was naturally suitable for placing items, they used the altar as a table when they cleaned up and selected which burial objects to steal.

Some things in the tomb, and even in the outer coffin, were randomly placed on the altar and left behind.

These things are little trinkets of little value.

Some are gold-plated boxes, some are conch shells, small jewelry and the like, so they were abandoned and left to the archaeologists.

However, not everything on the altar is a sacrifice.

Chen Han found uncarbonized grape seeds in a gilded lacquer plate!

This shows that this gilded lacquer plate was originally placed on the altar to hold sacrifices.

And the offering was a bunch of grapes!
Grapes were first spread in the Western Regions. Since Zhang Qian in the Western Han Dynasty emptied the Western Regions and introduced the Dawan grape variety, the scope of grape cultivation in the Central Plains began to expand.

By the Tang Dynasty, grapes had become a very common fruit, and they were also used in large quantities to make wine.

Grape wine luminous cup, urge you to drink Pipa immediately.

Drunk lying on the battlefield, Lord Grim, how many people have fought in ancient times?
In Wang Han's "Liangzhou Ci", grape wine was once recorded.

And Liangzhou is Wuwei, Gansu, and Qinghai is next door.

It is quite normal for Tuyuhun people to have grapes as a crop.

The climate in the Northwest is also very suitable for grape growing.

"These grape seeds haven't been carbonized yet!" Chen Han picked up the grape seeds on the gilded lacquer plate with great care, put them in a plastic sealed bag, and handed them to Kong Jianwen while trotting.

"Teacher, these are Tang Dynasty grapes from 1000 years ago, they haven't been carbonized yet!"

"If you use DNA testing methods, you can detect the genes of the thousand-year-old grapes!"

"This is really a rare thing."

Kong Jianwen took the grape seeds and nodded solemnly: "This is a good thing. I will contact the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences later and ask them to send someone to take it away."

"Grape seeds without carbonization are very valuable for research, and it is even possible to reproduce the grapes eaten by the Tang people 1000 years ago!"

Kong Jianwen just wanted to praise Chen Han a few words.

Lin Ya, who was squatting in the northwest corner of the main tomb, suddenly shouted: "Come and have a look! I found a human bone!"

All heads in the tomb turned to her.

I saw her holding a tibia in her hand, with an excited smile on her face.

Man, this scene is really scary.

Fortunately, it is daytime and the sun is shining brightly.

If you see a girl holding a tibia in her hand at night and waving at herself with excitement.

It is estimated that the legs can be scared weak.

Lin Ya's tutor, Professor Li, couldn't see it, and hurriedly shouted: "Xiaoya, those are important bone artifacts, don't move around!"

Everyone stepped forward to see what was going on.

It turned out that in the northwest corner of the main tomb, there were scattered piles of human bones, which were seriously damaged, and the skeletons were not complete at a glance.

And the posture is not the kind of burial posture, but the bones are piled up at a corner.

"Tomb robbers are really courageous."

"I don't even dare to get into the main tomb at night and get out the human bones lying in the coffin."

A young researcher at the Qinghai Institute of Archaeology was very emotional.

Although it is said that those who do archaeology are all atheists, they are not feudal superstitions.

But they were really a little panicked about this kind of fiddling with human bones at night.

It's fine in a lab or something.

It is indeed a test of courage to move the remains of the owner of the tomb directly in the dark underground main tomb.

As for why it is not considered to be done during the day.

How can there be a tomb robber who robs a tomb during the day?

Except for the official tomb robbing of the ancient army, the patriarch would not dare to be so arrogant!

"Check it out to see the gender and bone condition of the owner of the tomb."

A few archaeologists who have studied the identification of human bones squatted down and began to organize these human bones.

Soon, the pile of human bones was divided into two parts.

Obviously, this is not one human bone, but two.

"Preliminary judgment, it should be two skeletons of a man and a woman. The damage is a bit serious, and it is impossible to piece together a complete skeleton."

Listening to the explanations of several researchers, Chen Han touched his chin and said with certainty: "Then this tomb should be a joint burial tomb for husband and wife."

"I was on the other side of the altar and found some gold and silver jewelry. It looked like hairpins worn by women on their heads."

"But at the same time, iron arrowheads, which are only buried with male tombs, were found."

"It looks like this is the joint burial of a Tuyuhun noble couple!"

(End of this chapter)