Master Archaeologist

Moon Bay is the place where the Sanxingdui ruins were first discovered. In 1929, farmer Yan Daocheng accidentally discovered the Sanxingdui cultural relics here for the first time.

As soon as the hoe goes down, the 100-year-long excavation era of Sanxingdui began.

The people of the past have gone, but the homeland still exists.

Nearly 100 years have passed, and Moon Bay is still the same Moon Bay.

During the excavation season every year, there will still be stretches of farmland that will be requisitioned as archaeological excavation sites for field archaeology.

When Xie Dafei brought Chen Han to the Moon Bay construction site, which is an "important site for archaeology, no idlers are allowed to enter", what he saw was a busy scene of grandparents.

Said it was a construction site.

In fact, it is an area isolated with wire on an endless farmland.

It is different from the lush and lush farmland outside.

On this archaeological site surrounded by iron wires, there is no green on the ground, only khaki soil, and square ones.

These explorations are all newly opened during this year's excavation season. Before winter, no matter how well the excavation is, they must be backfilled.

Among the more than a dozen numbered expeditions, there is only one person in charge, who is a professional in archaeology.

The others are uncles and aunts recruited locally to help with the excavation of Tanfang.

Many of them even participated in the excavation of Sanxingdui in 1986 when they were young, and their "qualifications" are higher than that of the 20-something person in charge of the construction site.

The person in charge is only responsible for professional content, such as marking lines, drawing, measuring squares, scraping surfaces and so on.

To really dig the earth, you still need the help of these workers.

There is no way, China's archaeological power is really not enough now.

It's not that there is a shortage of talent training, but that there are too many places in China that need archaeologists.

Up and down 5000 years of civilization is no joke.

Thousands of archaeologists are digging everywhere at the same time all over the country every year!

Deng Xin, who is in charge of the Moon Bay construction site, is only 26 years old this year and is the person in charge of the excavation site for the first time.

"Come, come, clean up these pottery fragments first!"

As soon as he entered the construction site, Chen Han heard a slightly rough female voice calling the workers loudly to extract the scattered pottery fragments found in a detection square.

Xie Dafei, who was standing next to Chen Han, said with a smile: "The person in charge of this construction site is Deng Xin, who just graduated from the Department of Botanical Archeology of Sichuan University this year."

"It's a female doctor."

"This is her first time as the person in charge of an excavation. Although she is only in charge of a field archaeological site, the task is already very heavy for her."

"And she majored in botanical archaeology, so she's not that good at field archaeology."

"No, Tan Fang's cultural level, she can't tell the difference, so she asked me to help."

Xie Dafei's field archaeology in Sanxingdui is equivalent to the magic needle of Dinghai.

Wherever there is a problem, he will rush there to solve the problem.

Today is to help solve the problem.

Xie Dafei took Chen Han to the side of a detective with the number 4481.

That female doctor, Deng Xin, was in the Tanfang, holding a hand shovel and "fighting" with a stone-like object.

...

Chen Han took a serious look.

This stone tool was obviously polished by hand. Although it was a little rough, it was obviously not a shape that natural stone could form.

It looks like a relatively primitive stone axe, used to chisel things.

"Little Deng, what's the matter?" Xie Dafei asked with his hands behind his back.

Deng Xin, who had lowered his head, quickly raised his head, and when he saw Xie Dafei, he said with a happy face: "Brother Dafei, today's harvest is good!"

"Some fragments of pottery were found in the next pit, and one of them was obviously a foot of a pottery hob!"

Tao Yu is a kind of pottery unearthed from the Sanxingdui site in large numbers.

There is a semicircular opening on the top of the device, and a short tubular flow on one side.

The body of the vessel is slightly beamed, with a wide handle on one side.

There are three hollow pocket-shaped feet communicating with the body, which can not only increase the capacity, but also facilitate heating and heating.

Pottery is a kind of wine warmer. A large number of wine vessels were unearthed at the Sanxingdui site, which shows that agricultural production was quite prosperous at that time, and a large amount of surplus grain was used for wine making.

Tao Yu's three legs look like three "radishes", very similar to Huba's limbs in the movie "Monster Hunt".

I heard that the "Huba" of this movie was designed with reference to the Tao Yu of Sanxingdui.

However, the pottery that Deng Xin discovered was a bit broken, only one chubby foot remained, and the rest were all pieces of scattered pottery.

It is estimated that it is difficult to combine and fight.

After Deng Xin lifted up the suspected stone tool with a shovel, he followed the ladder next to him and walked up from the pit.

"Xiao Deng, let me introduce you."

"This is my younger brother, also a graduate of Peking University, Chen Han, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences."

Xie Dafei pulled Chen Han's arm with a smile, and introduced to Deng Xin: "Haihunhou, who caused a sensation all over the country a while ago, was discovered by Xiao Chen and Jiangxi together!"

"Oh!" Deng Xin nodded suddenly, and looked at Chen Han with a smile: "Mr. Chen who loves archaeology, I know him, the top male god in the archaeological world!"

Deng Xin is a girl with short hair.

It's really short hair, not the kind that fits the ears, but short hair that is almost the same as male hairstyles.

So much so that when she was squatting in the pit before, Chen Han couldn't recognize that it was a girl.

Being called a "male god" by a female colleague, Chen Han would feel a little embarrassed no matter how thick-skinned he was, he smiled shyly and didn't know how to answer the conversation.

But obviously, Deng Xin is a very cheerful "tomboy". She stepped forward and patted Chen Han on the shoulder enthusiastically, and left him alone.

While walking, she also said, "Brother Duffy, come and help me take a look."

"The earthy color almost makes me dizzy. You know, I'm a botanical archaeologist. It's really difficult to distinguish cultural layers."

"I can still distinguish between the upper modern layer and the modern layer. I can barely distinguish the Song Dynasty layer, but it is a bit difficult to distinguish the lower Sanxingdui period."

"Moreover, the previous predecessors all believed that the Moon Bay site was a "garbage dump" for the people of Sanxingdui. I didn't know why there was such a saying before."

"Now I understand that this soil layer is too chaotic after the Sanxingdui period."

"People in Sanxingdui poured everything here in a short period of time, forming a messy pile, and they can't be distinguished at all!"

There was a wry smile on Deng Xin's face.

This really upset her.

It seems to be the same layer, but it may be because different things were poured on the same day, and after all of them are fused together, they form different accumulation layers, which seem very indistinguishable!

Master Archaeologist