Master Archaeologist

Standing beside a dug out ditch, Chen Han said coolly:

"Our T1 is located at the west end of the north slope of the dam, close to Dustpan Hill in the west, in the same direction as the dam. It is 10 meters long from east to west and 4 meters wide from north to south."

"The main purpose of the trench excavation is to understand the structure of the joint between the dam and the mountain, and to clarify whether there is a special disposal method."

"In addition, during the previous drilling process, a small amount of cultural relics such as braised soil and carbon particles were found in this area, indicating the existence of cultural accumulation, which is expected to provide a stratigraphic basis for solving the age of the dam."

"This is a very important ditch!"

"Everyone must work hard to discover and strive not to miss any details!"

Yes, Chen Han has been "promoted". He is now the person in charge of T1 Tangou.

He can be regarded as the "ditch chief", and under him are five or six archaeologists from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Everyone is now working hard to carry out cultural excavations on this ten-meter-long and four-meter-wide trench.

At present, T1 has discovered cultural accumulations in different periods such as the Song Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, and Maqiao Culture.

Standing on the section of the south wall of Tanggou, Chen Han can clearly see the seven cultural layers in the section.

The first layer is the cultivated soil layer, gray-black soil, loose texture, containing a lot of humus and a small amount of stones.

But don't look at this as the top cultivated soil, but there are many good things in the soil layer.

However, in the soil layer with a thickness of 0.18 to 0.26 meters, a small amount of blue glaze, sauce glaze, white glaze porcelain, blue and white porcelain, original porcelain, imprinted hard pottery and sandy gray pottery were unearthed. Bowls, blue-glazed ring-foot bowls and other porcelain, as well as bricks, tiles, and pottery.

This shows that the uppermost cultivated soil layer of this layer, if stratified according to culture, is not a modern soil layer, but the soil layer of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

This is because the area where Liangzhu Ancient City is located was identified as an ancient ruins in the 20s, so after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, this area has not been listed as a development zone, basically maintaining its original appearance.

Therefore, the top soil layer is actually the soil layer of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and there are many traces of bricks, tiles and porcelain pottery in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

And the second floor below is already the cultural layer of the Song Dynasty.

The second layer of soil is light yellow-brown silt soil, which is relatively soft, mixed with gray and white soil blocks, and is 0.14-0.3 meters thick.

In this cultural layer of the Song Dynasty, celadon, sauce glaze, and white glaze porcelain pieces, sandy gray, yellow, and red pottery pieces, muddy gray, brown, and gray-black pottery pieces were also unearthed. Cans, bricks, tiles, etc.

Needless to say how important the Jiangnan area in the Song Dynasty was?
Especially the Southern Song Dynasty.

Lin'an Mansion, the temporary capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, is just next door to Yuhang!

Now everyone is a part of HZ City!

Located in the Liangzhu ancient city area of ​​Yuhang, in the Southern Song Dynasty, it could be regarded as a suburb of Beijing!
All kinds of Song Dynasty porcelain pieces and pottery pieces in the soil layer are so rich!
Of course, they are not the exquisite porcelains that ordinary people imagine, most of them are ordinary pottery and porcelain fragments used by ordinary people in the Song Dynasty.

To be honest, even now, it's not worth much money.

However, for archaeologists, whether it is worth money or not has never been considered by everyone. …

Even if it is a pile of shit made by the ancients in the Song Dynasty, if it can be dug out in the soil layer, it will be a treasure for archaeologists!
And the third layer is the cultural layer of the Tang Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, in fact, the Jiangnan area, especially the Zhejiang area, had already gone through the Sima family’s journey to the south. Jiangnan was also a place that was heavily developed in the Tang Dynasty, and it was very capable of supporting people.

When the Jiedu envoys in the late Tang Dynasty separated the regime, there were many small countries in the Jiangnan area.

Among the Ten Kingdoms in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Southern Wu, Southern Tang, and Wuyue were all separatist regimes near the south of the Yangtze River.

The cultural layer of the Tang Dynasty in Liangzhu is also very rich.

It may be the reason that it has never been excavated. Porcelain pieces such as sauce glaze, yellow glaze, celadon glaze, black glaze, and white glaze have also been unearthed. The identified vessel shapes include porcelain bowls, porcelain pots, porcelain cups, pottery pots, bricks, etc. Iron nails were also found.

In terms of richness, it is even a little bit richer than the cultural layer of the Song Dynasty.

Even because of the difference in soil quality and color, the cultural layer of the Tang Dynasty can be divided into two sub-layers.

It is also possible that there are two sublayers of the Tang Dynasty, one belongs to the Tang Dynasty, and the other may belong to the Southern and Northern Dynasties earlier than the Tang Dynasty.

Because most of those cultural relics were unearthed in the upper layer 4A, the number of relics in the lower layer 4B is relatively small, and only the types of artifacts are similar to layer 4A, so they are classified into the same cultural layer.

However, after the fourth cultural layer of the Tang Dynasty, the Liangzhu area immediately fully demonstrated the atmosphere of a "wild land".

As we all know, the Southern and Northern Dynasties went further, the Jiangnan area, especially the Zhejiang area near the sea, was not a good place, it was a place where savages ran everywhere.

Sun Wu, who occupied this area during the Three Kingdoms period, would send troops to crusade against Shanyue in the territory every year. The so-called Shanyue is actually a branch of Baiyue people.

Its productivity level is basically a little more advanced than that of the late Neolithic period.

Iron smelting, bronze smelting and the like are not at all, and the tribes use iron and bronze all by robbing the Han people.

Usually, they run around in the mountains and fields, and when they have nothing to eat, they go down the mountain and attack a wave of Han people.

This is not surprising.

After Westerners came up with gunpowder technology, when they colonized the world, the technological gap between them and the local indigenous people was even more outrageous.

When Chinese civilization entered the Three Kingdoms period, there were still a large number of Baiyue people who stayed in the tribal period in the south of the Yangtze River, which is actually not surprising.

That is, the old Sun's family, three generations have worked tirelessly to suppress Shanyue. When Sun Quan was old, the Shanyue in the Jiangnan area was considered to be cleaned up.

Only then did the Sima family have the opportunity to travel south in all their clothes.

Otherwise, if the Sima family wanted to dress up and travel south, they would have to fight an armed battle to wipe out Baiyue, which is not as smooth as in history.

It is also because the timeline goes further forward, and there are no cultural people in Jiangnan.

So after reaching the fifth layer of soil, the timeline was pulled directly to the Zhou Dynasty.

In the fifth cultural layer, sandy red pottery pieces, original porcelain, and imprinted hard pottery pieces were unearthed. The sandy pottery pieces were not high-fired, and most of them could not be extracted. The recognizable shapes include pottery balls, stone adzes, and primitive porcelain bowls. , beans, etc.

These unearthed pottery pieces are full of the style of Zhou people, and have the style of Wu and Yue.

This is also understandable.

At Zong Zhou's meeting, Jiangnan was not without people, it belonged to Wu Guohe and Yuechao ruled.

Three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu, and the famous Wuyue two countries were considered Zhou Wenhua's radiation area at that time, and they were also considered to have developed the Jiangnan area.

However, only a little bit has been developed. Except for pottery and primitive bowls, beans and other utensils, there are no high-end utensils.