Master Archaeologist

Chapter 75 Friends, let's learn archeology!
It is absolutely impossible to drill a well normally without knowing it in the tomb.

Even the vertical pit tombs in the Han Dynasty were sealed with a wooden cover on the top of the tomb.

As long as you hit it, you will definitely find something is wrong.

The only thing that doesn't matter is the tomb robbers who come for the tomb in the first place.

And I didn't bother to fill in the hole afterwards, so I put the hole there.

Like the king's tomb, the depth is more than ten meters or even twenty meters. Unknowing villagers stand above the robbery cave and look down, but they can only see a piece of darkness, and they can't see the situation inside the cave at all.

In addition, the peasants 300 years ago did not have a wide understanding of tomb robbers like modern people. When they saw something wrong with a deep hole, they would think of the hole robbery.

In addition, it coincided with the chaotic war at the end of the Ming Dynasty. After the situation calmed down and the local area returned to normal order, people later did not know what was going on with this "well", so they naturally used it like this.

It is really a sip of underground palace water, which has been tasted by generations.

After listening to the story in its entirety, the audience in the live broadcast room immediately vomited.

This story is really disgusting!

Even just imagining that scene, everyone can't stand it.

Some netizens who originally had a mentality of watching the tomb robbers and didn't care, now immediately turned their backs.

No one wants this to happen to them!

Put yourself in the situation and think about it, if you drank the water accumulated in the tomb for several generations because of the hole left by the tomb robber, how broken would it be?

"Why did the archaeology start when the tomb was stolen?"

"Why didn't the country discover it in time, and then seal up or excavate the underground palace and send it to the museum?"

"Why do archaeologists always follow tomb robbers?"

"Watching the news is always where the tomb is stolen, and the archaeologists only intervene. Can't the tomb robbers be one step ahead?"

All kinds of questions about why the tomb robbers were so rampant flooded the live broadcast room.

Seeing this scene, Chen Han was not only not angry, but very relieved.

It is a good reaction for netizens to start caring about tomb robbers and China's archaeological work!

He explained very seriously:
"I have to admit that there is indeed a phenomenon that archaeology is followed by robbery."

"But there's a reason for that."

"For the archaeological team, on the one hand, there are many tasks and insufficient manpower. Just being responsible for cooperating with infrastructure projects in various places to carry out exploration and rescue excavations takes up the time and energy of most archaeologists."

"On the other hand, archaeological excavation itself is actually a kind of "destruction". In the process of archaeological work in Huaxia, there have been problems of insufficient protection of many sites after excavation."

"So, at this stage, Huaxia archeology is working on the basis of protective and rescue excavations as much as possible."

"Under normal circumstances, they will not take the initiative to find undamaged ancient tombs for excavation. It is a passive mode."

"But tomb robbers are different. Tomb robbers specialize in finding undamaged ancient tombs all over the country to steal!"

"Although in recent years, the state has increased the investment of funds and energy in the protection of cultural relics and archaeology, and the departments of cultural relics protection in various places are also expanding their enrollment."

"But the shortage of manpower is still the biggest problem plaguing our work."

"Archaeology is not just excavation, it is a systematic discipline that includes a series of links such as field archaeology, cultural relics restoration, and cultural relics protection."

"Compared with foreign countries, our country has the longest history and the heaviest archaeological burden, but there is a serious shortage of archaeological professionals!"

"The Department of Archeology at Cairo University in Egypt recruits 500 students every year. At present, there are only more than 20 universities in my country with archeology majors. The total number of students cannot keep up with the number of students enrolled in the Department of Archeology at Cairo University in one year."

"In addition, due to various reasons, only some of the archaeological graduates in our country are engaged in archaeological work."

"Therefore, institutions such as cultural preservation offices in various places are seriously short of manpower, and they are stretched to protect some tombs from the Ming and Qing Dynasties that still have ground structures."

"What's more, those early tombs that have long been submerged in the countryside cannot be patrolled every day."

"This is why the tombs of the Han and Tang Dynasties and even earlier were stolen very seriously, but the tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are in good condition."

Chen Han finally showed his intentions, exposing his biggest goal of this live broadcast.

Pull people's heads for archeology-related majors!
There is a real shortage of archeology majors in China now!
The audience in the live broadcast room, after seeing Chen Han revealing his intentions, also started discussing.

"Is there such a shortage of people?"

"Which industry doesn't say that it lacks people?"

"Everyone says that there is a shortage of people in their major, and it is very easy to find a job after graduation, and then the students are fooled into studying, and after graduation, they will become cattle and horses, earning the least salary and doing the most work!"

"Archaeology still sounds very cool. It's a little exciting to be able to excavate with a license."

"I heard that it is easier for those who majored in archaeology to be admitted to the public office. Some special civil servant positions only require archaeological-related majors!"

"Yes, yes, a friend of mine who works in the customs said that they are particularly short of civil servants in the field of archaeology, and they have not recruited them for three years."

Half of the audience felt that Chen Han was exaggerating too much, and he was the same as other people who persuaded people to study finance, civil engineering, biology, and medicine in order to collect more free labor for good work.

The other half are audiences who seem to have understood the archaeological situation on a daily basis, and are echoing and lamenting the lack of people in the archaeological field.

In fact, Chen Han didn't lie at all, and everything he said was true.

Compared with the field of cultural relics protection, front-line workers who go to the construction site to carry out archaeological excavations are really not short of people. After all, there are only so many archaeological institutes in various places. Even though the country has increased investment and expansion in recent years, it is still relatively small. Very attractive.

What is really lacking in the current archaeological system are young people who are willing to devote themselves to the protection of cultural relics!
Cultural preservation departments and institutions in various places, especially in several major archaeological provinces, are really short of people.

Protecting existing and confirmed tombs, as well as facilities such as ancient ruins, monuments, and ancient cities, is a matter that requires a lot of manpower.

Not to mention the need to play a game with the tomb robbers to prevent the wandering tomb robbers from digging holes everywhere.

In addition, museums around the world are also short of people, cultural relics restoration institutions are also short of people, and cultural relics management and research institutions are also short of people!

Even departments such as public security and customs are lacking!

Because of the smuggling of cultural relics, people in the professional field of archaeology are also needed to assist in the investigation!
Chen Han took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and slowly took out examples to prove to the audience how scarce domestic archaeological professionals are.

"Let me give you an example, and you will know how short domestic cultural relic protection staff are now."

"In 2015, the police cracked a major cultural relics-related crime in Northeast China that caused a sensation in the archaeological world."

"Arrested 175 criminal suspects and recovered 1168 cultural relics involved in the case!"

"What they robbed was the 5000-year-old Niuheliang Hongshan cultural site."

"This site covers a very wide range and is scattered across the borders of the three provinces, so it is not easy to protect, and it has found an opportunity for the tomb robbers."

"You know, it's not just archaeologists who use the power of technology to continuously improve and upgrade archaeological methods."

"The robbers are also constantly updating their criminal methods. While they have a lot of archaeological knowledge, they even use a lot of technological means."

"A total of ten tomb-robbing gangs were captured this time, and the No. [-] leader was even called the "grandfather of the tomb-robbing world" by them!"

"This patriarch, according to his confession, has rich experience in determining the location of ancient tombs and ruins. He can do a general positioning without the assistance of a compass and directly based on the trend of mountains and rivers and the positions of the sun, moon and stars."

"To be honest, many of our archaeologists are not as good as him."

"And, among this group of criminal gangs, some people have begun to use technological means to carry out the theft."

"Many gangs of tomb robbers buy related equipment from somewhere abroad, and the price of each equipment is about 1.8 yuan. They can be called the pioneers of domestic technology tomb robbers."

"With the blessing of this technology and ancestral tomb-robbing skills, this group of criminal gangs can be said to be omnipotent, and they can't be rampant!"

"Compared to this, our official cultural protection staff is facing the problem of lack of manpower and equipment, and there is no way to deal with this group of criminal gangs, and they are stretched."

"By the time they were captured, the Heliang Hongshan Cultural Ancient Site was already scarred."

"If there were enough cultural relic protection staff in the three northeastern provinces and police officers who knew how to identify cultural relics, this criminal gang would have been caught and brought to justice as soon as it was dispatched!"

"So, all viewers and friends who are watching the live broadcast, if your family or yourself are about to choose the college entrance examination, if you are interested in archeology and history, please actively sign up for majors in the field of archeology and cultural relics!"

"After finishing your studies, you can enter the career program at the top level, and you can take the civil service exam at the bottom level. It is definitely an industry with very stable employment prospects!"

　Recently, I am thinking about a question, whether to add some well-known archaeological discoveries to the next journey of exploration and discovery.

　　For example [Sanxingdui] [Haihunhou] [Jiangcun Tomb]?
　　The main line of this book must be the journey of tracing the origin of Chinese civilization. From near to far, we will gradually find the traces of Chinese civilization in Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties and even earlier.

　　However, in addition to this main line, adding some well-known archaeological discoveries, it seems that it is easier for readers to substitute?

　　But I am worried again. Media reporters like [Sanxingdui] [Haihunhou Tomb] report every day, and you can find a bunch of archaeological discoveries in documentaries by just searching. It seems that there is no need to continue writing in the book. Interested Readers who understand it can just find the documentary and watch it by themselves.

　　So, the choice is up to you.

　　Deduction 1 for readers who feel that they can write about such a well-known discovery
　　I don’t think it’s necessary, so I continue to write some relatively unknown but equally shocking archaeological discoveries. Button 2
　　After a month, I will see which side supports the most, and I will follow whichever suggestion~
　　
　
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