Master Archaeologist

Chapter 333 Senior Brother
Sanxingdui No. [-] sacrificial pit archaeological base.

Chen Han was lying on the floating wooden board, beating his waist while continuing to clean a bronze urn.

This is a common bronze vessel in the Shang Dynasty, which evolved from the pottery urn that appeared in the earliest Neolithic period.

Extensive mouth, straight neck slightly tied, folded shoulders, deep abdomen, high ring feet slightly turned outward, with typical Shang Dynasty characteristics.

It is not uncommon to find merchant-style bronzes in Sanxingdui.

There was no disturbance in Chen Han's heart, he only felt his waist sore.

He felt that his lumbar muscles were already worn out at a young age. If he continued to dig like this, he might have to go to the hospital to recuperate his waist after the excavation season is over.

This posture of lying on the floating wooden board and digging down the sacrificial pit is really difficult!

"Junior Brother Chen!"

Shouting all over, caught Chen Han's attention.

He raised his head from the floating board and looked towards the door of the archaeological shed.

Lin Ya trotted in and shouted loudly: "Brother Chen, your brother is here for a party, do you want to meet?"

"Brother? Which brother?" Chen Han asked suspiciously.

"Mr. Xie Dafei, who graduated from Peking University!"

Chen Han nodded suddenly!

Xie Dafei, the current director of Sanxingdui Archaeological Research Institute!
And it's a very young archaeologist at the official level!
Said to be a senior, but in fact this Mr. Xie Dafei was 12 years earlier than Chen Han.

But it took him 12 years to become the director of the Sanxingdui Archaeological Research Institute, which shows how superb his archaeological level is!
Chen Han stood up in a jerk, crawled out of the sacrificial pit, and walked out of the shed while taking off his protective clothing.

This Senior Brother Xie Dafei has known his name for a long time.

After graduating from university, senior brother Xie Dafei focused on the archaeology of Sanxingdui, and he has been working in the Sichuan Basin for 12 years.

It can be said that he is the one who knows the most about the archaeology of Sanxingdui.

Don't look at Sanxingdui, which seems to have made no surprising discoveries in the past ten years.

But in fact, Sanxingdui organizes large-scale field excavations every year during the excavation season. Batch after batch of archaeologists from all over the country go to the rural fields of Guanghan to carry out various field archaeological work.

And it is Mr. Xie Dafei who is responsible for organizing these field archaeological work and giving them a complete picture.

Feeling nervous about meeting the great god, Chen Han quickly walked to the field excavation site outside the shed.

From a long distance away, he saw a cute and chubby figure, who was chatting with Qin Zhan, the "pit chief" who explored the area.

"Thank you, brother!"

Chen Han walked quickly to this chubby figure, and extended his hand modestly: "I am Chen Han, a graduate of the 16th class of Peking University. I am currently working in the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, responsible for the excavation and cleaning of the No. [-] sacrificial pit!"

Xie Dafei turned around and looked at Chen Han with a smile, and patted him on the shoulder enthusiastically: "Chen Han, right, I know you!"

"Oh, the professors at the school, they often talk to me about you!"

"The tombs of the nobles of the Zeng Kingdom that you participated in excavating, as well as the tomb of Marquis Haihun, which caused a national sensation, are amazing!"

Unexpectedly, the senior brother actually knew about him, and Chen Han was a little surprised.

In fact, he is completely unaware of his own fame.

Not to mention that now "Ms. Chen who loves archeology" is the top science popularization account in the field of archaeology.

Let's just say that the several excavation projects he participated in have caused a sensation in the Chinese archaeological circle.

The only lineage determination of the underground vassal state "Zeng (Sui) Kingdom" that is clearly understood by archaeology, and the tomb of Marquis Haihun, which was hotly discussed on the Internet some time ago.

Anyone who is an insider knows about these two major archaeological projects, and also knows about Chen Han as a participant!
Many of his papers have been published in "Han River Archeology" and "Archaeology" in recent years!
"Brother Xie, why did you come to our archaeological base?" Chen Han asked excitedly.

Xie Dafei waved his hand: "Haha, it's nothing, just stop by and see the progress of the fields on your side. Didn't it mean that we found a sacrificial building?"

"By the way, Junior Brother Chen, you have been archaeological at the Academy of Social Sciences for so long, have you not touched the field archaeology at Sanxingdui?"

"Squatting in the excavation shed of the sacrificial pit every day is not enough. Field archaeology is also very important."

Chen Han scratched his head.

Xie Dafei is the person in charge of field archaeological work in Sanxingdui.

What is field archaeology?

To put it simply, it is field archaeology to open one by one in the open air in the farmland, and then squat in the exploration to find traces of ruins, civilization and cultural layers.

This kind of field archaeology usually follows the excavation season.

That is to say, every year from spring to summer, large-scale field archeology will be carried out, and backfilling will be carried out in autumn, and then continue after winter.

Areas such as the Moon Bay City Wall and West City Wall in Sanxingdui, the Qingguan Mountain Site, and the Rensheng Village Cemetery require large-scale field archeology every year during the excavation season.

As for Xie Dafei, he just wandered around among various construction sites. If he was in trouble at any construction site, he would come to him for help.

Usually when no one asks him for help, he will also run back and forth between various construction sites to check the progress and actively participate in the work.

In short, Xie Dafei is the general person in charge of the entire field excavation work, and is the final guarantee in terms of technology!
"Brother, since we came to Sanxingdui, we have been busy extracting the sacrificial offerings from the No. [-] sacrificial pit."

Chen Han shrugged helplessly: "There are too many cultural relics in the sacrificial pit, and there are thousands of them with numbers. I really don't have time to wander around the field construction site."

He is not perfunctory, he is really busy.

The team from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences came to support the extraction of the sacrificial pit.

And field archeology are indeed two systems.

Those in charge of field archaeological work are basically Sichuan locals and archaeological teams from all over the country.

And many of them are led by teachers from colleges and universities for internships.

After all, in field archaeology, the vast majority of the time is digging square squares, and then looking for traces of pottery fragments in the squares, delineating the stratification of geological layers, and looking for traces of human activities. Traces, look for the ruins of the ancient Shu Kingdom.

All in all, it is a very time-consuming task, but it is not that difficult. At least all students can participate in the internship.

However, the work of extracting cultural relics from sacrificial pits is different.

This thing is serious and has to be face to face with cultural relics, and they are all the most quintessential and splendid cultural relics of Sanxingdui civilization. Only professional elites can play well.

Otherwise, if you accidentally break or break the cultural relics, it will be a lot of fun.

When Chen Han and the others were working, they had to concentrate at 150%. They were so busy that they didn't touch the ground every day. They really didn't have time to visit other construction sites.

But Xie Dafei didn't think so.

He laughed and put his arms around Chen Han's shoulders: "Brother Chen, let's go, brother will take you to other construction sites!"

(End of this chapter)