Master Archaeologist

Chapter 213 Give you a chance, you are useless!
The excavation work on the second day was still not very satisfactory.

After cleaning up the gold and silver wares first, the second thing to look for is the bronze wares.

However, the Tang Dynasty was already a period when ironware culture was very developed. In fact, there were not many things made of copper.

In addition, the main tomb has been visited many times by tomb robbers.

So there are no bronze wares left.

The only complete bronze vessels found are two copper basins that were turned upside down on the ground near the altar.

The bottom of these two copper basins is still missing a piece, and there is no pattern or decoration on the body, just a very ordinary basin.

It is estimated that it was used to hold meat during the sacrifice, but was overturned on the ground by tomb robbers.

In addition, in the northeast of the main tomb, the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences also discovered a pile of copper armor pieces!
The preservation of this pile of copper armor pieces makes people want to cry.

绿！
So green!
It's even green enough to be almost the same color as turquoise!
It's not like bronze at all!

When he first discovered it, Chen Han thought it was an armor made of turquoise, which is awesome.

As a result, after touching it with my hands, the difference between stone and metal can still be felt by touching it.

It can only be said that this pair of bronze armor has withstood too many winds and frosts that it should not have endured at its age.

To be honest, Chen Han has seen so many bronze wares in the tombs and ruins of the Qin, Han and Zhou Dynasties, but he has never seen one as green as this pair of armor.

This shows that the alloy ratio of this set of armor is definitely very unique, and it is different from the alloy ratio of traditional Chinese bronze.

Otherwise, it should appear dark green, turquoise, or black, bluish rust green.

Instead of this bright green bright green turquoise color!

These unearthed armor pieces are nearly rectangular, and the lower part is semicircular.

The length of each piece is about 10 in length, 5 in width, and 0.3 cm in thickness, which should be part of the breastplate.

And the production process is more traditional bronze armor.

The armor of the Tang Dynasty can be regarded as one of the pinnacles of all dynasties.

Because the Tang Dynasty was rich and controlled a vast area, the Tang people not only had luxurious weapons, but also had excellent development in armor.

The proportion of armor and equipment of the Tang Dynasty army has greatly increased compared with the previous generation.

The standard of the Tang Dynasty was that armored soldiers accounted for 60% of the total army.Although not all of them wore iron armor, this ratio is still a great improvement compared to the ratio of armor in the Han Dynasty army mentioned above.

In terms of armor types, Volume [-] of "Tang Liudian" provides information: "There are three types of armor: one is called Mingguang armor, the other is called Guangyao armor, the third is called fine scale armor, the fourth is called Shanwen armor, and the fifth is called bird hammer armor. The sixth is the white cloth armor, the seventh is the silk armor, the eighth is the cloth back armor, the ninth is the infantry armor, the tenth is the leather armor, the eleventh is the wooden armor, the tenth is the chain armor, and the tenth is the waistcoat."

In other words, in the Tang Army, there are a total of thirteen types of armor.

The sorting of these armors is not sorted by combat strength, but randomly sorted.

Among them, Mingguang armor, thin scale armor, Shanwen armor, and chain armor are all well-known armor types.

Especially the Mingguang armor, basically there are dramas about the Tang Dynasty in TV dramas, such as the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the generals in it all wear Mingguang armor.

But unfortunately, this set of armor unearthed in the tomb of Tuyuhun royal family is not Mingguang armor.

Anyway, from the remaining pieces of armor, it is really impossible to tell what kind of armor it is.

We have to wait for the follow-up repair to see if we can get a general idea of ​​the repair, and then we can see what kind of armor it is.

However, it can be seen from the materials that Tuyuhun is still using bronze as the raw material for armor.

It can be seen that although the Han people in the Central Plains have been fully using iron for hundreds of years, the nomadic peoples in the north are still in the development stage of half iron and half bronze.

Why is it called half iron?
Because next to this set of armor, 13 iron arrowheads were found!
These iron arrowheads are nearly triangular in plane and flat rhombus in cross section, which are very standard arrowheads.

In other words, although the armor of the Tuyuhun people is still made of bronze, their arrows have been replaced with iron.

This is also in line with the development of the times.

Iron was first used in the military field, that is, it was first used to make iron arrowheads, replacing the original bronze arrowheads.

Because "arrowheads", that is, arrowheads, are obviously much easier to make than swords, daggers, halberds, knives, halberds, and spears.

And even if the iron used in this thing is a little inferior, it can avoid the danger of weapons such as swords, guns and swords that need to go to the battlefield and charge with enemy weapons.

For example, holding a sword made of low-quality iron and slashing against the enemy's high-quality bronze sword, if the iron sword snaps, the soldier's life will obviously be gone immediately.

The cost of trial and error is too high.

But Iron Arrow will not have this worry.

This thing is shot from a long distance, even if the iron is inferior when it first came out, there are some quality problems, the big deal is that you can't kill the opponent with one arrow, and you won't die either.

And no matter how poor the quality of iron is, it is still metal.

As long as it is sharp enough, regardless of the hardness, it can kill the enemy with one arrow.

Therefore, during the Warring States period, a lot of iron was used to make iron arrowheads and used on the battlefield.

This point can also be found in the unearthed evidence.

But the Tuyuhun people are still using half-iron and half-bronze utensils, which is indeed a bit exaggerated.

After experiencing the land sinking of the Central Plains during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, a large number of Han people in the Central Plains became the people of the regime established by the northern nomads, providing advanced technology for the nomads.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it can be said that it was a cultural revolution of the northern nomadic people.

The nomads who were still using primitive bronze and even stone tools were immediately dazzled by the advanced culture, craftsmanship and civilization after they took over northern China.

Otherwise, the Northern Wei Dynasty would not be fully Sinicized, and chose to abandon the culture of the Xianbei people and integrate into the cultural system of the Han people.

Because the level of civilization of the Han people is indeed too advanced!
Must learn!

Therefore, the level of education of these nomads, especially the craftsmanship of weapons, immediately changed the shotgun.

Then came the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms again later, and also distributed gift packages of high-level civilization and technology in the Central Plains to the nomads.

So Liao, Jin, Xixia, and Mongolia, these nomadic peoples who were still drinking blood, learned from the barbarians to control the barbarians, and became the big daddy, suppressing the Song Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, after the influence of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, in the Tang Dynasty, Tuyuhun still used bronze armor?
Tuyuhun is a branch of Xianbei, and his ancestors were rich in those days!
The Northern Wei Dynasty of the Tuoba tribe was the northern regime established by the Xianbei people!

If it is said that the Tuoba tribe of the Xianbei nationality who established the Northern Wei Dynasty was a top student among the nomadic peoples who learned the culture and technology of the Central Plains.

The Tuyuhun tribe of the Xianbei tribe is definitely a poor student among the poor students!

After hundreds of years, it has not yet fully entered the Iron Age!
It's no wonder that Tubo will be laid down.

Give you a chance, you are useless!
(End of this chapter)