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Speaking of rare porcelain, Chen Wenzhe thought of the oldest piece of pottery recently sent by Gao Qijing.

It was discovered in Xijiang, and the preliminary judgment has a history of at least 9000 years.

The reason for this judgment is entirely because they discovered a 9000-year-old site.

Needless to say, the site unearthed 9000 years ago must be the oldest pottery in the world.

Anyone who knows something about history knows terms such as the Paleolithic Age and the New Age.

Among them, the Paleolithic Age is the most distant from us, when humans generally used stone tools.

The Neolithic Age is relatively close to us. At that time, humans had already started to use pottery, even painted pottery.

So who knows where the oldest existing pottery in the world was unearthed?

For this question, most people may not be very clear.

Even Chen Wenzhe didn't know until he saw the pottery 9000 years ago that the ceramics in our country had already been fired as early as 9000 years ago.

Therefore, the oldest existing pottery in the world was discovered by archaeologists at the Xianrendong site in Wannian County, SR City, Xijiang Province, my country.

And the site is about 9000 years away from today, almost 1 years ago!

The site is located in Dayuan Township, Wannian County, on an intermountain basin named Xiaoheshan, and belongs to the cave site of the new era.

The site was actually discovered as early as the 60s, but pottery was not found there.

Since then, a joint archaeological team composed of the Department of Archeology of Peking University, the Xijiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and the Andover Archaeological Foundation of Ugly Country conducted large-scale excavations on the site five times in 1993, 1995 and 1999. .

As a result, animal bones were found, as well as a large number of pottery, stone tools, clam tools, and bone tools belonging to the Neolithic Age.

A problem needs to be explained here. Although archaeologists have discovered pottery from this site long ago, they have not been able to determine the approximate time of its production or production.

Until 2012, researchers from my country, Ugly and Germanic countries re-examined the site.

They used the radiocarbon dating method to determine the samples they took, and determined that the pottery unearthed at the site is the oldest pottery in the world.

And this discovery was selected as one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in the world in 2013 by Ugly Country's "Archaeology" magazine in 2012.

Besides this site, after the archaeologists excavated the site, they found that it is divided into upper and lower layers.

Most of the pottery found in the lower ruins are coarse sand red pottery.

In terms of types, there is only clay pots, so they show relatively strong primitiveness.

The stone tools found in the upper ruins are mainly ground stone tools, and the types and quantities of ground stone tools are relatively small.

There are many types of pottery unearthed in the upper ruins, such as muddy red pottery, sandy red pottery, and muddy or fine-sand gray pottery.

In terms of utensils, in addition to pots, there are also pots and buckets.

In terms of stone tools, there are many polished stone tools and punched stone tools. Bone spears and mussel arrowheads were also found in the site.

This shows that the people in Xianrendong lived by fishing, hunting and gathering.

It should be noted that the pottery found in the site has been broken.

Judging from the existing fragments, most of these pottery were hand-kneaded.

The thickness of the tire wall is uneven, and the tire quality is also very poor.

Some are also mixed with clam powder, quartz grains and other substances, so the craftsmanship is very poor.

The color of pottery is also unstable. For example, three colors of black, red, and gray may exist at the same time on the same piece of pottery.

All this shows that the pottery-making technology at that time was still in its primitive stage.

At that time, it was very likely that the method of firing on the ground was used to fire pottery.

Finally, let me talk about another interesting thing, or a more tragic thing.

At that time, archaeologists also discovered human bone fossils belonging to four individuals in the site.

After scientific identification, it was found that among the four human bone fossils, there were two adults and two children.

The two adults were a boy and a girl, and the two children were eight years old and one year old.

It looked as if the four of them were a family of four, but experts say such speculation is wrong.

Because at that time human beings were still in the primitive clan society, there was no monogamous family.

Everyone still lives in a group where they work together and distribute together, so there will be no small families like monogamy and two children.

Apart from this little episode, the ancient pottery that Chen Wenzhe harvested must not be complete.

Because they were all found in roughly the same ruins, and even these ruins should be creations of the same era.

Therefore, the things found are roughly the same, and they are not complete devices anyway.

Of course, not all ancient Taici are fragments, such as ancient ceramics 5000 years ago, or 500 years ago, and he has complete vessels in his hands.

The discovery of this kind of porcelain was also accidental, and the same thing was unearthed in the area where he discovered these ancient ceramics before.

For example, the human-head-shaped painted pottery vase more than 5000 years ago has been found in the same shape before, and that one is called a national treasure.

As for such a piece of painted pottery, the reason why Chen Wenzhe remembers it deeply is entirely because the most beautiful part of it is the pregnant belly.

As far back as 8000 years ago, Dadiwan in Gansu Province was in the Holocene warm period.

At that time, the climate in this area was warm and humid, and the land was fertile.

Our ancestors created the earliest painted pottery culture in our country with water, fire and soil.

The painted pottery vase with a human head and mouth is the only one of the thousands of painted pottery vases unearthed in the Dadiwan area.

In the seventh episode of the second season of "National Treasure", the host introduced three national treasure-level cultural relics to the audience.

Among them, the third national treasure-level cultural relic is this painted pottery vase with a human head and mouth from Dadiwan, Gansu Province.

As the treasure of the current Gan Provincial Museum, what is the charm of this painted pottery vase with a human head and mouth?

First of all, this is a woman. In 1973, a piece of fine clay red pottery was unearthed in Dadiwan, Shaodian, Qin'an, Gansu Province.

It is 31.8 cm high, 4.5 cm in diameter and 6.8 cm in bottom diameter.

The faience pottery vase has a human head-shaped mouth, short hair equal to the forehead, a straight nose and small mouth, regular facial features, and small holes for hanging ornaments in both ears, just like a girl in a floral dress.

We seem to see a short-haired goddess standing on the banks of the Yellow River, praying for the happiness and well-being of her people.

Such a shape is not outdated even today, so we can know that as early as 5000 years ago, our ancestors had some hazy aesthetics on the shape.