Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 867 Goal
The trinkets recovered from those ivory crevices include bronzes, stones and jades, the most attractive of which is a jade jade carved from green jade.

This piece of jade jade is 15.86 cm long, 4.09 cm wide, and 0.5 cm thick. Tremolite nephrite is dark green with white stripes and translucent.Rectangular, longer, flat top, straight waist, straight face, flat blade.

There are five groups of tooth-shaped decorations on Yuguiwo's railing. The upper and lower groups each have 4 parallel straight lines, and the middle three groups each have 3 parallel straight lines. Each line consists of two parallel straight lines.

The whole vessel is neatly made and polished smoothly. It is obvious that this should belong to the highest level of ritual vessel in ancient times, and that it can appear in the pit is a good indication of the level of the ruins.

And when everyone got together to discuss at night, they found out that ritual vessels similar to this jade jade were dug up in several places that everyone searched today, including jade jade, jade cong, jade Zhang and so on.

The most striking one is a tremolite nephrite jade cong with a length of 6.94 cm at the upper end and a length of 6.3 cm at the lower end, with an upper hole diameter of 5.55 cm and a lower hole diameter of 5.14 cm.

The whole jade cong is blue in color, moist and transparent in texture.The surface of the utensil has a large area of ​​whitening caused by the loss of calcium, and the texture of the whitening mostly spreads along the original natural cracks of the jade mineral material.There are also strips of light black ooze spots and gray-black fruit grain ooze spots on the surface of the device.

In appearance, the jade cong is a rectangular cylinder with a square outside and a circle inside. The top of the device is large and the bottom is small.The whole vessel is divided into ten sections, and each section is carved with a simplified human face pattern.

In terms of craftsmanship, the jade cong has a rectangular horizontal edge engraved with fine parallel lines to represent the feather crown, and two circles, one large and one small, are cut out with a pipe drill to represent the eyes and eyeballs respectively.On the short rectangular crosspieces there is a geometric pattern resembling a moiré, representing a nose.

A human-shaped symbol is engraved on its upper body. The human-shaped figure wears a long crown on its head, holds its hands horizontally, has long flowing sleeves with feather-shaped decorations on the sleeves, and spreads its feet as if it is dancing.The two ends of the inner wall of the hole are large and the middle is small, which is formed by drilling on both sides.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this is at most as exquisite as the jades discovered before, and at most they feel that compared with other jades, the style and material are a little different. But in the eyes of professionals, the jade cong is obviously from the Liangzhu culture. Style.

The Liangzhu Culture is a prehistoric civilization of the Neolithic Age, located near the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China, thousands of years earlier than the history of this site.

Therefore, considering the huge historical and spatial differences between the two, it is very strange to be able to find cultural relics from the Liangzhu civilization in the ruins located in the capital of Shu.

"—That is to say, before there are official historical records, the entire Yangtze River Basin has had exchanges, and in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, such exchanges gradually became normalized, so these things appeared here."

When the professor above was explaining about the jade cong from the Liangzhu culture, Liang En slightly turned his head and explained to Joan in a low voice why everyone paid so much attention to this cultural relic.

"In fact, historians from various countries have always believed that the scope of human communication in prehistoric times may be much wider than we imagined, because it is difficult to determine this because of the lack of sufficient historical materials."

"And these unearthed cultural relics can just prove the existence of this ancient trade route, and correct the original historian's erroneous view that the scope of early prehistoric civilization activities is limited to the periphery of civilization."

"If that's the case, this cultural relic is indeed very precious." After hearing Liang En's explanation, Joan of Arc immediately understood why this cultural relic was so precious.

The same thing has different values ​​in the eyes of different people. For example, for those cultural relics dealers, a piece of jade is a piece of jade, and where it is unearthed does not matter much.

Or to be more precise, for cultural relics merchants, whether the core of where this thing was unearthed can be used to tell a story to attract customers, as for the historical value of this thing is true is not important to the merchant.

But for scholars, any content related to cultural relics is very important, and it can even be said that a lot of content can be analyzed from the soil adhering to the objects.

Just like this jade cong, it would not be surprising if it appeared within the scope of the Liangzhu culture, because there have been thousands of jade cong there, but it would be different if it appeared thousands of kilometers away to the west .

During the excavation work in the next few days, they found more ivory, jade, stone and bronze ware. For example, there were more than 150 ivory pieces alone. More importantly, they also found several gold products.

Some of these gold objects are gold crowns carved in relief, while others are very thin gold plates, which seem to be ornaments that dare to decorate other things.

The most famous thing among these gold ornaments is a mask made of gold. When people carefully cleaned up the dirt on it, they found that it was the same product as the gold mask unearthed in Sanxingdui.

This golden mask proves one thing, that is, the ruins are indeed closely related to Sanxingdui, and they may even come from the same ethnic group.

At least judging from the identification of the discovered cultural relics, the Jinsha site is very likely to be a new settlement after the disaster or civil strife in Sanxingdui.

Of course, this is only an analysis based on the information at hand. If there is more content in the future, it is likely that these theories will be patched, or even completely changed.

But this does not mean that the work Liang En and the others have done is meaningless. After all, even if they come to a wrong conclusion, they are helping future generations to try and make mistakes, which is not worthless.

Because a large number of cultural relics were also found in the site that Liang En searched before, he had to change his activity goal again and give up the site he originally excavated to those more professional people.

Undoubtedly, this was also what Liang En hoped for. He preferred to find something new rather than dig deep in the old location, so this kind of resolution just liberated him.

The new site is located to the north of the previous site, hundreds of meters away from the previous excavation site, and closer to the river. During the previous search, this area was designated as a temporary excavation area because traces of humans were found on the money watch.

"What do you think is here?" When everyone started digging, Joan of Arc pulled Liang En aside and tiptoed to his ear and asked in a low voice.

Although the excavation range can be anywhere in the north, and Liang En followed the rules after arriving at this site, but Joan could see that Liang En had actually chosen this place before.

In other words, before digging, Liang En seemed to know that there was something likely to be hidden in this place, so he chose this place for excavation. "Some very important things." Liang En said with a smile,
"You know that the excavation permits for the two of us are only valid for ten days, so I have to find something very valuable now."

So after the excavation work was over, under Liang En's suggestion, the two took out the metal detector and started searching. Soon, they heard the alarm sound from the metal detector.

(End of this chapter)