Master Archaeologist

Chapter 327 The House

Chapter 327 The House
Red blotches, like traces of some kind of liquid that dries up.

When such a feature is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is blood!

And in the cultural relics of the sacrificial pit in Sanxingdui, if there were bloodstains, it would be a big discovery.

When excavating cultural relics in archaeology, it is true that some unknown things are often found, and there is no way to explain them.

This is where archeology is so attractive.

For the time being, there is no way to distinguish what these spots are by means of technology.

Then we can only guess.

And among all the guesses, bloodstains seem to be one of the most likely guesses.

If these red spots are really blood, it means that during the sacrifice process, or during the burial process, there was a ritual process similar to "blood sacrifice".

This is not surprising.

Merchants love blood sacrifices.

When merchants sacrificed to their ancestors, in addition to offering the meat of livestock such as pigs, cows, and sheep, they would definitely use human blood for sacrifices.

And the people who use it don't distinguish between inside and outside.

The most famous ones, of course, are the Qiang people. Businessmen love to use Qiang people to sacrifice their ancestors. It seems that the blood and corpses of the Qiang people are very good at pleasing the ancestors.

In addition to the Qiang people, there are also defeated enemy captives who are often used to worship ancestors, such as Guifang and Dongyi. In the oracle bone inscriptions, there are records of being used to sacrifice ancestors.

Of course, not only foreigners, businessmen also treat their own people in the same way.

Minor nobles would often sacrifice slaves to their ancestors, middle nobles would sacrifice minor nobles, and great nobles would sacrifice middle nobles.

And in the three views of businessmen, it is a very honorable thing to be used as a sacrifice to the ancestors, it is glorious, and it is an honor.

Therefore, the sacrificial culture of merchants is very bloody.

Is it the same for the Sanxingdui people?
Good luck.

In several sacrificial pits, no bones of martyrs have been found so far.

In theory, more than 3000 years is not enough for the bones to completely corrode and dissipate.

I dare not say that all of them will remain, but at least there will be bone fragments.

Haihun Hou Liu He is so miserable, and the preservation environment is very poor. He has been soaked in water for a long time, and has been air-dried. He has been in the ground for 2000 years without drying or wet, and he still has a good pair of teeth.

If human sacrifices were performed in the sacrificial pits in Sanxingdui, there would be more or less human bones left behind.

Not to mention that all of them are well preserved, but some teeth, leg bones, shin bones, and skulls can be preserved to some extent.

The Yuanmou Man from 170 million years ago can still retain a skull fossil, and the Sanxingdui Man from 3000 years ago cannot find traces of bones at all.

As for what the archaeologists missed, this is almost impossible.

As a qualified archaeologist, when excavating this kind of sacrificial pit, it is the most basic professional quality to sift every grain of soil.

Not to mention complete bone fragments, even a single tooth is impossible to miss.

If there is no discovery, it means that no one has died.

Since they did not use human sacrifices directly, even if the red spots were bloodstains, it is not certain whether the Sanxingdui people used human beings for sacrifices like the merchants.

However, blood sacrifices are possible.

There seems to be no difference between blood sacrifice and human sacrifice.

But in detail, there is a difference.

The so-called human sacrifice is to use human beings to be buried, and the corpses must be intact.

"Person" is used as a sacrificial object, a kind of funeral object.

The blood sacrifice is more of a ritual.

It may be during the sacrifice process, or during the burial process, killing prisoners next to the sacrifice pit, or killing slaves as part of the ceremony.

But these slaves or captives may not necessarily be buried together. The meaning of their existence is the ritual process of "killing captives", not a sacrificial object or burial object.

Although they all die in the end, but the way of death is different, and the meaning it brings is also different.

For the Sanxingdui people, if there is a sacrificial ceremony similar to the "blood sacrifice" during the sacrifice process, this is a relatively important phenomenon for modern people to study the Sanxingdui civilization.

The only question below is how to verify whether these red spots are blood stains or not.

However, it is not him who is bothered by this problem, but the cultural relics protection personnel and technical personnel of the cultural relics protection center.

It is located in the area of ​​the No. [-] sacrificial pit in Sanxingdui, surrounded by walls on the other half of the open space.

At this time, field archaeologists from the Sichuan Archaeological Institute are directing some grandparents to continue excavating in the area where a pile of squares has been dug out.

"You guys just dig this area!"

"Dig these two."

"Why are you here to dig this? I'm not telling you what to do there."

Speaking authentic Sichuan dialect, several archaeologists skillfully commanded the grandparents carrying hoes and dustpans and wearing straw hats to carry out the excavation in the wild.

This is also the most common scene in Chinese archaeology.

Basically, for the excavation work in the wild, the archaeological teams of various provinces adapt to local conditions and hire some rural uncles and aunts to help.

This kind of work of digging squares is actually no different from that of ordinary people reclaiming farmland. It is to draw a square pit line, and then everyone digs out the soil in the pit and transports it away.

Archaeologists will not intervene until the soil layer with remains has been dug.

After all, it really depends on more than a dozen people in each city, and if there are only a few professional archaeologists, it is simply unrealistic to dig dozens or even hundreds of cubic meters of soil at every turn.

At this time, Chen Han was standing outside the glass shed of Pit No. [-] with his waist up, watching the busy grandpas and aunts start exploring.

He is also very concerned about the archaeological remains of these sacrificial areas and overlapping residential areas outside.

Through observation, he could see that the archaeological work in this relic overlapping area had also made great progress in recent months.

A narrow ditch has been found at a distance less than 20 meters away from the No. [-] pit where he is located.

On the narrow ditch, some circular post holes were also found.

These pillar holes are very deep, with a diameter of about ten or twenty centimeters.

And beside the pillar hole, many micro marks were found.

More and more discoveries of old traces of ruins point to the same possibility.

The four sides at right angles between the narrow ditch and the post hole, if connected together, can just form a square.

And the four pillar holes are the four corners of the square.

If, erect four logs for support in these four post holes.

Then, the shape of a house appears vividly.

Obviously, with the deepening of field archaeology, the residential area was finally discovered, the house where the Sanxingdui people once lived!

(End of this chapter)

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