When he discovered that there was a child's skeleton underneath the young female skeleton, Chen Han's face changed from relaxed and comfortable at the beginning to a slightly serious one.

Chen Han and his small team of four were responsible for the expedition No. F4, which was a house site survey. "F" stood for "house" and 4 represented the fourth house site discovered.

According to common sense, discovering skeletons in a house is already something wrong.

According to archaeological discoveries, at least in the Paleolithic period, humans have already had the concept of "burial". When members of the tribe died, they were usually moved to a "cemetery" for burial.

When many sites from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods are unearthed, specialized burial areas can be found.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, there will be no skeletons in the house site.

The discovery of skeletons means that the young woman and the child beneath her died in the house and were left alone.

Until thousands of years later, layers of loess buried the house and their bones in the ground, and nothing changed, just as it did then.

This is so strange.

"Is this...a sign of fracture?" Su Sa, who had been observing the skeleton, pointed at the chest and back of the female skeleton that had just been cleaned up by Chen Han.

It can be clearly seen that several ribs on her chest are broken.

This shows that it is very likely that this female skeleton did not die naturally or due to disease, but died unnaturally!

Perhaps her death occurred due to violent intervention!

But at this time, no one can confirm it.

After all, this skeleton has been buried underground for thousands of years.

No one can tell whether the fracture of the ribs was caused by geological changes or other factors.

It's really hard not to think of the fracture found in the ribs.

Zhang Jianbo adjusted his glasses and speculated: "Could it be that the early exploration staff made a mistake and this is not actually a house site, but a burial pit?"

"Young women and children, this is very consistent with the form of burial?"

"Come on." Zhuang Yunpeng rolled his eyes and looked at Zhang Jianbo as if he were looking at a fool: "Old Zhang, this is a site from the late Neolithic period."

"Human martyrdom only became popular during the Shang Dynasty. In the Neolithic period, at most, some animals would be sacrificed for burial. We have never seen any use of living people."

"In that era, every healthy human being was a valuable labor force for the tribe. How could it be possible that the ruling class would be used to bury them!"

"Even the slaves of the defeated tribes are not luxurious enough to be buried!"

"It's harmful!" Zhang Jianbo slapped the back of his head and said in a funny tone: "I dug too much under the tombs of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and my brain just couldn't turn around!"

Zhang Jianbo comes from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences [Shang and Zhou Archaeological Research Laboratory], and is usually responsible for the excavation of tombs from the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

In his previous job, he often came into contact with burial pits, so he immediately thought of this.

It was a little joke.

Well, there should be no answers to the doubts about this skeleton for a while.

But in archeology, there are too many things that are excavated that leave people confused, and it is obviously unrealistic to figure it out on the spot.

Sometimes a small archaeological discovery requires several months of research and various demonstrations before the situation can be clarified and a report can be issued.

Zhuang Yunpeng picked up the camera hanging on his chest and looked at the skeleton consisting of an adult woman and a child. After taking several high-definition photos from multiple angles and archiving them, everyone dispersed and continued excavation.

...

When the whole day's excavation work was over, the four of them had gained something.

In addition to the skeleton that Chen Han was responsible for, Su Sa also found a pottery that had fallen on the ground and looked like a jar.

Zhang Jianbo found a stone ax in the corner, a very primitive tool.

Zhuang Yunpeng made the biggest discovery. He was lucky enough to unearth a piece of jade!

Although the whole picture has not yet been cleared up, it is impossible to determine what the specific artifact is.

But no matter what it is made of jade, its value is very high.

Because of the cultural connotation of jade, it has become an important part of the Chinese people's aesthetics since ancient times.

The "jade culture" that originated in the early Neolithic Age and continues to this day is what makes Chinese culture unique from other civilizations in the world.

Jade culture, with jade as its central carrier, has not only deeply influenced the thinking of Chinese people, but has also become an indispensable part of Chinese culture.

The patriotic national integrity of “I would rather have jade broken into pieces”.

The fashion of unity and friendship that “turns into jade and silk”.

The selfless dedication character of "moistening with warmth".

The spirit of integrity and integrity that “does not hide the flaws”.

"A gentleman is as good as jade" is both moral and moral.

Jade has become the representative of a gentleman, a symbol of rank and status, and the most important part of the "ritual system".

There are nearly 500 Chinese characters for jade, and there are countless words composed of jade. The treasures in Chinese characters are all related to jade.

The word "jade" is a beautiful and noble word in the minds of the ancients.

In ancient poetry, jade is often used to metaphor and describe all beautiful people or things.

And all of this stems from the Chinese ancestors in the Neolithic Age, who were the first to discover, appreciate and use jade!

However, in the Neolithic period, especially when the bronze smelting process had not yet been mastered, the production of jade was not generally difficult.

Even making jade was the highest skill that the ancestors of the Neolithic Age could master.

As the saying goes, stones from other mountains can attack jade.

It's just that attacking jade is as difficult as attacking a city.

In that era without any metal tools, the ancestors could only produce primitive tools from granite by polishing stone tools.

Then, these simple stone tools are used to mine natural jade, polish it, drill holes, and finally further process it purely by hand until it is carved and decorated, so that complex, exquisite, and beautiful jade can be made.

It takes at least several years from inception to completion!

A jade artifact at that time was almost equivalent to a "photolithography machine" today, and they were both the pinnacle products of human craftsmanship during the same period!

Every Neolithic jade artifact that can be preserved to this day can be called a national treasure!

These jades from the Neolithic period not only retain the traces of age and time.

It also records the humanistic features of that ancient era, and even the artistic connotation that spans thousands of years.

Zhuang Yunpeng's discovery of a jade was already something that made him excited and excited.

Stroking the smooth and warm body of this jade, feeling the infinite wisdom and peak craftsmanship of these ancient ancestors, even gave him the illusion of traveling through time and space.

Thousands of years ago, this piece of jade was picked up from a stream by a Chinese ancestor at the Lajia site. He spent several years polishing, drilling, and carving it into exquisite jade objects.

Thousands of years later, that highly skilled ancestor has long been lost in the long river of time, and no one still knows or remembers him.

However, the jade articles he once made still exist in the world after the changes of time.

Let the Chinese people thousands of years later be able to admire his proud works and have a glimpse of the beauty of art thousands of years ago!
Chapter completed!