Master Archaeologist

After resting for two days and visiting the Sanxingdui Museum, Chen Han arrived at the Sanxingdui Archaeological Base with an archaeological team supported by the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences.

They came by minibus.

However, on the way here, Chen Han saw a lot of small eDonkeys, all going in the same direction as them.

Sure enough, after arriving at the Sanxingdui Archaeological Base, a row of small electric donkeys were parked inside the enclosure.

Lu Ben, who came to greet them, saw Chen Han's eyes resting on those small e-donkeys, and explained with a smile: "The archaeologists at the archaeological base all come to work on small e-donkeys."

The place where the Sanxingdui archaeological base is located is very desolate.

The reason why first-line archaeology is called "field archaeology" is because everyone basically conducts archaeological work in the field.

The Sanxingdui archaeological base is surrounded by a piece of farmland, surrounded by wasteland or farmland.

There is only one enclosed glass greenhouse standing on this plain.

Therefore, the staff who usually travel to and from archaeology usually ride a small electric donkey to and from get off work, which is convenient and comfortable.

Chen Han nodded in understanding, and followed Lu Ben. After passing the security check, everyone walked into the enclosure.

As soon as he entered the door, Chen Han saw two rows of four 50-year-old rural aunts, carrying hoes and Luoyang City, walking towards an open space next to the central glass shed.

Only separated by a glass wall, the archaeological base was divided into two halves.

The left half is a tall and wide glass shed square, and what is protected inside is the sacrificial pit to be excavated. There are many archaeologists wearing protective clothing, busy.

On the other side outside, there is a piece of wasteland that has been leveled, and there is also a group of archaeologists, directing the local villagers, who are exploring squares and marking lines.

"Whether it's inside or outside the wall, everyone is doing the same thing, which is to explore the traces left by the sacrifices of the ancient Shu people." Lu Ben said proudly.

Only sacrificial pits have been found so far.

But as a civilization with sacrificial culture, it is impossible to have only sacrificial pits.

Next to the sacrificial pit, there must be ruins such as supporting sacrificial altars.

What these archaeologists outside have to do is to find the location of the altar and other ruins.

It just doesn't look like their job is going well.

Chen Han stepped forward and took a look. Although various lines were drawn in the several exploration squares, only the soil layers and geological differences could be separated, and there were no traces of man-made buildings or the like.

"No obvious things have been found at this stage."

Lu Ben explained again: "However, these are the problems that we need to solve in our later archaeological work."

Chen Han didn't say anything.

Field archaeology is actually a process of opening a blind box.

Even with the help of Luoyang shovel, it is very complicated and requires a lot of imagination to use Luoyang shovel or explorer to find the ruins in the confused wasteland.

It doesn't mean that you can find it with a shovel.

Sometimes it is very common for an archaeological team to dig caves and explore all over the mountains and find nothing after being busy for several months.

When Chen Han was still in college, he participated in field exploration in autumn with his college tutor.

They were still going to Henan, a major archaeological province, but it took a month of field exploration before they found a small tomb.

Compared with determining the location of the site for excavation, finding the site and tombs is the most difficult thing.

This is why among tomb robbers, the so-called "feng shui exploration" and "finding dragon points" are the masters.

Finding a burial is always better than digging one.

Applied to ruins, finding an altar will always be more difficult than digging an altar.

After looking at the archaeologists outside for a while, Chen Han smiled and asked Lu Ben: "Is the No. [-] sacrificial pit inside?"

"This time, we will support the archaeological work of the No. [-] sacrificial pit first?"

In this round of Sanxingdui archaeology, a total of six new sacrificial pits were discovered.

分别是3、4、5、6、7、8、号坑。

Among them, Pit No. [-] is a large pit, which is the pit with the most bronzes among all the priest pits that have been discovered!

It’s just that the archaeological forces in Guanghan are seriously insufficient. The archaeological work of Pit No. 8 has not yet begun. Only two professional researchers and students from the Department of Archeology of Sichuan University are here to carry out "internship" archeology. There is an urgent need for social science. Support from the Institute of Archeology.

So as soon as they arrived here, Lu Ben arranged Chen Han and the others here.

In this regard, Chen Han has no opinion.

As long as he can participate in archaeological excavations, he doesn't really have any requirements as to where to dig.

Even if he is asked to help with field exploration, it is no problem to dig holes all the time.

But obviously, the elite of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences will definitely not be used in aimless exploration work.

Lu Ben led everyone, put on a set of protective clothing at the door, put on a mask, and entered the archaeological shed made of all glass.

At this time, in the shed, there were already seven or eight archaeological workers who were also wearing protective clothing and masks, and could not see their faces clearly, lying beside a pit.

Listening to the voices of their discussion, Chen Han can tell.

All are young people.

And they are all very young, with a very youthful voice, probably no more than 25 years old.

This group of people should be archaeological students of Sichuan University.

As for the two teachers surrounded by them, they didn't feel very old, they sounded like they were in their thirties.

It can be seen that the archaeological forces in Guanghan are indeed scarce.

If it were replaced by the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, such an important No. [-] sacrificial pit would have to be led by a leader of Kong Jianwen's level, and the professor would be the backbone to participate in the excavation.

It is said that it is an archaeological practice, but in fact, "seeing" is greater than "hands-on".

As the sacrificial pit with the largest area and the most artifacts among the eight pits, it must not be excavated by a few college students.

In fact, these students in protective suits surrounded the two researchers, listening to the two researchers explain the situation in the pit.

After Chen Han and others entered the shed, they did not disturb them, but walked to the other corner of the sacrificial pit.

Nine elite archaeologists from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences looked into the pit together.

Then, there were exclamations one after another.

"A lot of bronze wares!"

"This scene is too grand."

"There are too many bronze wares from Sanxingdui people!"

"Is this the amount of sacrifice?"

In front of their eyes, a sacrificial pit of more than ten square meters was densely packed with bronze wares, layered upon layer, with large pieces enclosing small pieces, and small pieces enclosing even smaller pieces.

With a cursory glance, you can see that there are many familiar tripods and statues, as well as portraits and masks with Sanxingdui cultural characteristics!
This is simply a treasure!