Master Archaeologist

Chapter 237 Hot pot existed in the Han Dynasty!
Chen Han stood on the high-rise platform next to the No. 1 main tomb. The tomb chamber of the main tomb looked like a huge pit about 400 square meters.

Different from other tomb archaeological sites, the entire tomb is fixed with a steel frame, which is very cyberpunk in the future world.

And these devices, in fact, have a saying.

According to Wen Yuangen, the leader of the archaeological team, this method is called steel net protection.

This is a protective measure used to protect the tomb body and prevent damage to cultural relics and archaeologists from collapse.

The steel net protection is also an innovative measure of Jiangxi archaeology, which is relatively rare in other archaeological sites across the country.

To be honest, seeing these dense steel nets supporting the skeleton of this tomb really gave Chen Han a strong sense of security.

Of course, the "sense of technology" in the excavation of Haihunhou's tomb does not stop there.

Just less than 20 meters away from Chen Han, there is a prefabricated room filled with a bunch of high-tech computers, and there are also several optical cables for dedicated lines.

If it is said that in those tomb robbery novels, the protagonist leans on a laptop computer and can quickly scan the three-dimensional map of the tomb, and can know the structure and precise location of the tomb, which is already miraculous enough.

That reality will only be more amazing!
The archaeological excavation technology used in Haihunhou's tomb is already several streets ahead of the high-tech in the novel.

In the early stage of investigation and excavation, the scientific and technological archaeological staff used scientific and technological means such as geophysical detection, Beidou global status system, electronic total station network monitoring and control, and global geographic information system records.

The survey information of this tomb has been fully three-dimensional and three-dimensional, and a geographic information system for the Haihunhou Kingdom site has been initially established.

Moreover, for the safety of excavation work.

Every archaeologist who needs to enter the tomb for front-line archaeology must carry a high-definition miniature camera to record the dynamic process of the archaeological excavation.

Moreover, several high-definition time-lapse cameras were set up on the top of the main tomb, which automatically shoot every 5 minutes, overlooking the situation in the tomb below 24 hours a day.

With these film and television materials, while preventing some black sheep from appearing in the team and guarding against self-stealing, it can also restore the whole process of the excavation of Haihunhou's tomb for the future, leaving precious video materials.

According to the person in charge of technological archaeology.

Chen Han and his front-line archaeologists, no matter what cultural relics were unearthed in the tomb, the group of monitoring personnel tens of meters away could know it immediately and record its exact location.

Well, not just to keep someone from stealing.

It is mainly used as a record.

Where each cultural relic was found, and which cultural relics were placed in which position in the tomb.

Don't underestimate these issues, precisely these issues are important material evidence related to the restoration of the burial system, funeral specifications and culture of the entire tomb.

It can be said that now that the tomb of Marquis Haihun has risen to the importance of a "national name", every step needs to be carried out under a magnifying glass.

Little mistakes are not allowed!
This made Chen Han, who was originally in a relaxed mood, a little more nervous.

When working, it's not easy to laugh and tease other people, so I can only concentrate on the cleaning work at hand.

After clearing the corridor at the entrance of the tomb and the carriage and horse storage on the left and right sides of the corridor, the front-line archaeologists actually came to the main coffin chamber.

However, now is obviously not the time to open the main coffin chamber.

Between the corridor and the main coffin chamber, there are two passages leading to several small side chambers on the south side of the tomb and a large side chamber on the north side.

As the cleaning work gradually progressed, everyone quickly figured out the purpose of these side rooms.

The north, east, and west sides of the main coffin chamber are surrounded by corridor-shaped Tibetan coffins according to their functions. There is a passage about 0.7 meters wide between the main coffin chamber and the hidden coffin.

On the south side of the aisle are the clothing warehouse, arsenal, document archives, and entertainment equipment warehouses.

The east side of the aisle is mainly a food official warehouse of a kitchen utensils warehouse.

Moreover, after the side chambers on the north and south sides, that is, behind the main coffin chamber, there are several back storage rooms.

It's just because the front storage room has not been cleaned up yet, and the function of the back storage room is not yet known.

However, the clothing storehouse, arsenal, document archives, entertainment equipment storehouse, and kitchenware storehouse in the front alone have brought great surprises to the archaeologists.

For example, during the cleaning process of the kitchen utensil warehouse in charge of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, Chen Han was surprised many times.

What surprised him the most was a "hot pot" found in the southeast corner of the kitchenware warehouse this afternoon!
It is not surprising to find hot pot in the kitchenware library.

However, this is the tomb of the Western Han Dynasty!

There have always been different opinions about the origin of hot pot, and there is a lack of actual archaeological evidence.

According to the literature records, the earliest is "Wei Shu".

"Book of Wei" records that during the Three Kingdoms period, people used hot pots made of copper to cook various meats such as pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, and fish.

But it was not popular at that time. Later, with the further development of cooking technology, various hot pots also appeared on the scene one after another.

By the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, the way of eating hot pot was very common among the people. The taverns in Kaifeng, Bianjing, had hot pot in the market in winter.

And before the Three Kingdoms, did hot pot already appear?

Historians have always said that.

Some historians believe that there was hot pot as early as the Warring States period, but people at that time used clay pots as pots.

Another part of scholars believes that there was hot pot in the Han Dynasty, and the "dou" recorded in the Han Dynasty is actually hot pot!

However, these academic arguments have always lacked actual archaeological evidence.

but!

Starting today, nothing will be the same!

It is certain that at least in the time when Haihunhou lived, the most primitive hot pot has already appeared!

What kind of kitchen utensils can be considered as a hot pot?
First of all, the kitchen utensils should be in the shape of a pot, and water should be put in it, right?

Then, charcoal or wood should be placed underneath to heat the bottom of the pot.

In this way, it is the earliest hot pot.

The hot pot found in Haihunhou's tomb is a tripod with relatively stable support.

The upper end of this pot is a container with a big belly and a small mouth, which is easy to cover.

The lower end is connected to a charcoal plate. This charcoal plate looks very much like a modern copper stove hot pot, but the carbon plate is not directly connected to the hot pot above.

But according to the role of the carbon plate, and it has traces of being used, there are charcoal traces in the charcoal plate, and there are even residues such as chestnuts in the pot.

Basically, it is certain that this is a practical hot pot of the Han Dynasty!
Because of this structure of connecting carbon at the bottom and boiling water at the top, it is the hot pot, or the earliest style of copper hot pot!

This shows that at least in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, people in the Han Dynasty already had hot pot as a delicacy!

(End of this chapter)