In the past two or three days, the archaeological team found all kinds of stone tools and pottery.?
At this time, carbon 14 testing cannot be done, so the exact age of the Longshan site cannot be determined. Everyone can only guess from the exquisiteness of the pottery and stone tools that this site should be a late Neolithic relic.
The discovery of the city wall at this time further verified the speculations of the archaeological team.
After several days of hard excavation, everyone was surprised by the scale of the ancient city wall. The thickness of the wall is 8-13 meters, and the length and width of the wall have been dug for more than 0 meters and it has not yet reached the end.
Li Ji quickly asked a student to return to Tsinghua University and go to the principal Luo Jialun to apply for additional funding. At the same time, he hired several local farmers to work overtime to excavate the ancient city wall.
A week later, the general outline of the ancient city wall began to appear, which was 5 meters long from north to south and 4 meters long from east to west. The east, south and west walls were relatively straight, while the north bank wall curved outwards and the corners of the city wall were arc-shaped.
Zhou Hexuan originally wanted to watch the excitement for a few days and then go back, but the discovery of the city wall made him quite excited and he continued to stay to help dig out cultural relics.
A few days later, the archaeological team discovered an area densely populated with cultural relics. Not only were there various pottery and stone tools, but also bones used for divination, and even...
"Yu Jue! This is Yu Jue!" He Shiji shouted, holding a hollow disk.
Soon, the archaeological team found some jade pieces, jade huangs and other objects scattered here and there, which made people even more excited.
Jade Zhang and Jade Huang are both ritual vessels of the Chinese civilization, indicating that this site is directly connected to the present Ming Dynasty, and may even be the ancestor of the Chinese civilization.
There are also inscriptions on the jade, and the patterns are similar to writing, but they are different from the known oracle bone inscriptions and golden tripod inscriptions.
Li Ji observed the original characters with confusion and excitement, and guessed: "Could this be Dongyi script from the Xia and Shang Dynasties?"
Who knows!
Until Zhou Hexuan traveled through time, Chinese archaeologists were unable to decipher the characters at the Longshan site. Because there were too few in existence and they had little inheritance relationship with Chinese characters, it was like a heavenly book to archaeologists.
Zhou Hexuan estimated the time and prepared to rush back to Tianjin. But just as he was about to leave and wandering around the archaeological site, he suddenly saw a bronze statue.
The archaeological team members were collectively confused...
As for the Neolithic Age, what the hell are bronze ware?
Li Ji looked at the bronze statue stupidly, his mind completely confused. Because this bronze was exquisitely made, it showed that the bronze production technology at that time was relatively mature, and it was completely impossible to appear in the Neolithic Age.
In the evening, the archaeological team members ate cereals and sat around to discuss.
But there was no result after arguing over it, because this bronze statue was too bizarre, just like a laptop computer found in the Republic of China era.
Zhou Hexuan suddenly said: "Is it possible that our current excavation site is not one ancient ruins, but two overlapping ruins?"
Li Ji's eyes lit up and he said happily: "It is very possible, and there is only one reasonable explanation, that is, the Neolithic Age ruins overlap with the Bronze Age ruins!"
Zhou Hexuan studied history before traveling through time, and did not graduate from a professional archeology department. He only had a general understanding of Longshan culture, but he did not know that the Chengziya ruins in Longshan Town were actually the overlap of three ancient ruins.
There are three ancient cities here.
The bottom layer belongs to the Neolithic Age city wall, the middle layer is the Bronze Age city wall, and the top layer also has a Zhou Dynasty city wall.
In an era without carbon-14 measurement technology, such a complicated situation was incomprehensible to archaeologists. They could only make rough judgments based on cultural relics. And it was time-consuming and labor-intensive. Only this half-month discovery could make Li
Ji and others have been studying it for 20 or 30 years.
When a reporter from Ta Kung Pao received the news and came to the archaeological site to take photos and interview, Zhou Hexuan finally decided to leave and took a mutilated black pottery cup with him. Anyway, many similar pottery cups were unearthed, which was enough for them to do archaeological research.
One thing doesn't matter.
The entire cup is smooth and round, with a black metallic luster exuding on the surface. The mouth of the cup is larger than an adult's palm, and the wall of the cup is as thin as an eggshell. The thinnest part is only 0.2 mm, and the thickest part is only 0.5 mm.
Millimeters, this firing technology can only be described as ingenious.
Li Ji and other archaeological team members temporarily named this black pottery "eggshell pottery" because it is as thin as an eggshell.
Zhou Hexuan carefully preserved it along the way, buying boxes and cotton in the town for fear of damaging such extremely fragile items. He was not greedy for money, but wanted to keep it as a souvenir and donate it to the archaeological community decades later.
You can also do research.
Two days after Zhou Hexuan returned to Tianjin, the news from "Ta Kung Pao" was also released. At the beginning of the second page, two archaeological photos were published, one was an eggshell pottery object, and the other was a jade object more than 20 centimeters long.
Zhang.
"An archaeological team led by Mr. Li Ji, a professor at Tsinghua University, recently discovered prehistoric remains in Longshan Town, Licheng, Shandong (later included in Zhangqiu)... After archaeological excavation, a large number of black pottery, jade, stone tools and divination tools were unearthed, and excavated
An ancient city wall hundreds of meters long and wide was revealed... It is reported that pottery, divination and jade are very different prehistoric characters... From the types of jade, it can be preliminarily inferred that this Neolithic relic is directly related to the Chinese civilization, or may be
The ancient ancestors of the Chinese people..."
The article also introduces eggshell pottery in detail, because it is so thin that modern pottery craftsmen cannot make such exquisite pottery.
As soon as the report came out, it immediately shocked the entire Chinese archaeological community, and even some archaeological experts from the south came to help.
The Academia Sinica chaired by Cai Yuanpei was planning to establish a historical research institute. After hearing the news, he immediately organized manpower and went to the site with archaeological funds.
…
At this moment, far away in Fengtian in the northeast, British historian Toynbee was conducting an on-the-spot investigation.
This man often travels around the world. Judging from his footprints, he can be said to have traveled around the world. He was in Japan some time ago, then went to North Korea, and then arrived in Northeast China via North Korea. His next plan is to visit Peking and Tianjin.
Zhang Xueliang, who became the president of Northeastern University, personally met with Toynbee. Scholars including Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin also accompanied Toynbee around these days.
Toynbee was not only a historian, but also an expert on international affairs. He was well-known all over the world and even in Chinese politics. His work "A Survey of International Affairs" was widely praised by Chinese academic circles. Even the Beiyang government and the current Nanjing National People's Government
The government will refer to Toynbee's academic views when conducting diplomatic activities.
When Chinese diplomats encounter problems that are difficult to solve, they will also take out Toynbee's works and look through them. At the back of his books or papers are important documents such as international conventions, diplomatic letters from various countries, and various international maps.
, international current situation chart, these materials cannot be found in the library at all.
"General Zhang, thank you for clarifying my doubts. I think it's time for me to leave Northeast China." Toynbee smiled and shook hands with Zhang Xueliang.
Zhang Xueliang said half-jokingly: "It would be great if Mr. Toynbee could stay in Fengtian and be my international diplomatic adviser."
"Haha, maybe there will be a chance in the future." Toynbee is the Royal International Affairs Advisor of the United Kingdom. How could he stay in the Northeast?
In fact, Toynbee set his trip to China in Fengtian because he was very interested in the international situation in Northeast China, because it involves the Soviet Union, Japan and China. To put it bluntly, he was here for academic inspection. These days, Zhang Xueliang is visiting
A lot of first-hand information was obtained there.
After making a few jokes, Toynbee suddenly asked: "General Zhang, do you know a Chinese scholar named Zhou Hexuan?"
Zhang Xueliang smiled in surprise: "He was my secretary."
"That's great," Toynbee asked happily, "do you know where he is now? I want to visit him in person."
Zhang Xueliang knew that Zhou Hexuan was well-known in academic circles and was even very famous in American political circles. But he never expected that even the British Royal Advisors would value Zhou Hexuan so much.
Zhang Xueliang said immediately: "Mr. Zhou lives in Tianjin at the moment. You can go to the Tianjin Ta Kung Pao office to find him."
"Thank you very much," Toynbee shook hands with Zhang Xueliang, "General Zhang, if you need an international affairs consultant, Mr. Zhou Hexuan is the best person. I am also a loyal reader of his academic works."
Zhang Xueliang was reminded by Toynbee and immediately realized: Yes, although Mingcheng does not want to enter politics, you can ask him to be my consultant! 8
