Master Archaeologist

Chapter 294 Glass Pillow

There are 30 teeth in two rows.

Well, Liu He has wisdom teeth, but not full length, only two.

All 30 teeth were cleaned out, but the physicist only extracted two of the back molars, and planned to bring them back to the capital for follow-up scientific research.

Although the rest of the teeth were also extracted, they were temporarily placed on the archaeological base and belonged to "archaeological relics" rather than scientific research objects.

In any case, Liu He's teeth are also cultural relics and antiques, so they can really be used by human physiologists to grind them for scientific research.

Keeping this thing is a treasure for human culture.

After taking away the two back molars, the physical anthropologists who came in a hurry left Jiangxi without any memory and went back home.

Except for these teeth, Liu He's skeleton has no value to study.

Although a few femur and humerus stumps were recovered from the coffin, they had lost their scientific value because of the severe decay.

Simply put, no useful information can be extracted from these bones.

Therefore, several experts in physical anthropology didn't have the slightest memory.

Anyway, they don't know how to do archaeology!
Archaeologists such as Kong Jianwen and Chen Han are very satisfied with this.

Time waits for me, they also like to get the test results as soon as possible, so that they can have more data and evidence to explore Liu He's background!
After the experts in human physiology left, the archaeologists returned to their posts again.

Because of this tooth, no one did any archaeological cleaning of the area above Liu He's neck.

But don't mind it now.

Everyone immediately extracted and cleaned up the remaining lacquer mask on Liu He's face.

After cleaning off the remaining lacquer mask, the glazed mat underneath appeared in the eyes of everyone.

At the head position, the glass mat that can be exposed is the most and the clearest.

Because the head has the smallest area, there is only one head, lying on the glass mat, there is no way to occupy the entire mat.

"The edging is also out, but the edging is still made of gold. Liu He is really rich."

"Why does it look like a rhombus-shaped glazed sheet, which is different from the glazed mat under the body, not a rectangular strip?"

"Maybe it's not striped on the head!"

There was a lot of discussion.

The glazed mat unearthed on Liu He's chest and abdomen was long strips. Simply put, it was the same shape as the jade pieces of the golden hazel jade garment.

But now on the glazed mat unearthed from Liu He's head, the glazed blocks on it are diamond-shaped.

"Is this another glazed mat used for the head, or is the glazed piece used for this glazed mat a different shape?"

"This one is quite a lot, including this one, it's all glazed pieces."

"Isn't it, on the head of the owner of the tomb?"

Everyone got together, holding bamboo sticks while picking up the mud above Liu He's head, discussing.

Suddenly, Chen Han had a flash of inspiration.

"No, this is not the glazed mat under Liu He!"

"This should be his glazed pillow!"

Western Han people, or as long as they are ancient people, will have pillows when they are buried.

This makes it appear to be "asleep" rather than death.

In general, the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty used jade pillows in the selection of pillows.

This is not a ceremonial device.

But when they were alive, the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty usually used jade pillows, and they had to be made of Wen Yu.

You know, there was no cotton in ancient times, at least not in the Han Dynasty.

"Pillow, recommended for sleeping."

Judging from the word "pillow" on the pillow, the word "pillow" next to the word "wood" is the word "pillow".

When it first appeared in ancient times, it should be mainly made of wood.

For example, wood, dead grass, etc. Of course, some people use stones as "pillows". After all, cool stones can relieve physical discomfort in hot summer.

Therefore, Chinese people used to use hard pillows in ancient times.

Porcelain pillows, wooden pillows, salt pillows, amber pillows, glazed pillows, cloth pillows, all kinds of materials are used to make pillows.

Poor people without money use wooden or stone pillows.

Later, the traditional wooden pillows could no longer meet the needs of the people, and bamboo and rattan pillows began to appear, which were mainly used for keeping cool in summer.

Pillows made of bamboo and rattan, because the ventilation space is reserved in the middle of the pillow, can avoid sweat accumulation, can effectively solve the problem of hot summer, and are more comfortable to use in hot summer.

Under the head and neck, the occasional coolness has become a beautiful thing for summer sleep.

And for rich nobles, they have a more advanced enjoyment, jade pillows.

Although the coolness of bamboo and rattan pillows is effective, some people are not satisfied with this level of coolness, and then choose stone pillows for sleeping and enjoying the coolness.

Although stone is used as the material, it is no longer the original stone products, but porcelain and jade are more chosen.

Such a quality of life was clearly not something ordinary families could afford in ancient times.

Even today, this jade pillow is still a luxury. Not only is it a sigh, some ancient people are really "trench".

In the Ming Dynasty, most emperors still used jade pillows.

It wasn't until the Qing Dynasty that the Jurchens didn't have this habit, so they didn't use jade pillows anymore, cloth pillows, and embroidered pillows entered the rooms of nobles.

However, the nobles in the Western Han Dynasty did not really just use jade as pillows.

In the previously excavated tomb of the Nanyue king, Zhao Hu, the second generation Nanyue king, was buried with a pearl pillow on his head.

When the coffin was opened, a large piece of pearls was scattered behind his head.

Even pearls can be used to make pillows, so it doesn't seem strange to use colored glaze to make pillows.

And in the field of antique collection, there are indeed glazed pillows handed down from generation to generation.

This shows that at least using colored glaze as a pillow has physical evidence.

Then, since the rhombus-shaped glazed pieces found on the top of Liu He's head are different from the rectangular colored glazed pieces under him.

It may be because these diamond-shaped glazed pieces were not part of the glazed mat, but Liu He's glazed pillow.

The location is also right, on the top of the head!
Before everyone could discuss whether Chen Han's idea was correct, Professor Li let out an exclamation and drew everyone's attention away.

"Hey, there's also netting, knitting!"

I saw that still above Liu He's head, next to the glazed pieces, there were some neatly woven black weaving fragments appearing in a grid pattern!
The size of each fragment is only about 3-4 cm in length and width, but the production is very surprising, and the weaving net is very neat!

"Is this the hat wrapped around Liu He's head?"

"It should belong to the same object as the weaving fragments found before!"

"Yes, it should still be a fragment of the hat!"

(End of this chapter)