treasure hunt god pupil

Chapter 258 A Giant Treasure Is About to Be Born

The village soon spread the news that there were ancient artifacts buried in that wasteland, otherwise so many police cars would not have come.Moreover, a large cordon was pulled up at the fastest speed, almost surrounding the wasteland.

What Li Mo didn't expect was that Zhao Guangliang didn't know which nerve was wrong in his head, and he even invited the local TV station's car and broadcast live.

He was slowly cleaning the black pottery in the pit, and a cameraman next to him was taking close-ups with a camera.And Zhao Guangliang introduced from time to time that he didn't know black pottery from the Neolithic Age, but he knew a little about Li Mo's origin, so he often pointed out that this young hero was an excellent student trained by Beijing University.

"Director Zhao, there is something I want to say up front. The shooting process is fine, and it can record the moment when the Neolithic antiquities were born, but I can't have a frontal photo of me, otherwise I can only ask all of you to leave the scene. You also Don't be perfunctory, if I get angry, I'm afraid many people will not have a good life."

Zhao Guangliang was really careful at first, thinking that when Li Mo was happy, his life would be easier, but now he realized that he was obviously flattering the wrong ass.

"Mr. Li, please don't worry, all the pictures about you will be cut out during the post-cutting."

It's fine if Li Mo reminded him, his main energy is to clean up all the black pottery in this pit first, and leave the deeper part for the later team.

Since it is a cultural site of the Neolithic Age, the oldest town model may still be preserved deep underground.

"Brown bear, how many pieces of pottery have been unearthed so far?"

"92 pieces are relatively complete, [-] pieces are broken, and there are a bunch of fragments that can't be discerned. According to your instructions, they are all protected so that no one can approach them."

"Every piece is very precious, especially those black pottery with good quality. They need to be cleaned carefully by professional people, so that the brothers can cheer up."

"Boss, please don't worry, they are all as if they have been beaten with chicken blood. And the person transferred from Mr. Shi who doesn't know where, transported a lot of supplies by truck, and started to build a temporary shelter in this area. shed."

"Let him arrange it. If you need help, let the brothers help."

"Understood the boss."

Time passed quickly, and after Li Mo cleared out a few more items, he saw that the time was already past four in the afternoon, and the sky would get dark after another hour or so of busy work.After the outside greenhouse is built, people will install lighting equipment.

He squatted down and carefully cleaned the pottery at his feet again. Judging from what he saw through his different eyes, the unearthed pottery under his feet should not be simple, because the pottery is so big that it has already broken away from the category of ordinary pottery. , a bit like the water tank used in rural areas.

The most important thing is that there are black and white light circles spreading out from the body of the pottery, which shows that it has strong historical and artistic value.

Pieces of soil were dug aside, and a villager in his 40s was more prudent in his work, picking out the soil again.

When the side of a large piece of pottery was exposed, Li Mo's face became serious. He put the shovel aside and wiped off part of the sticky soil with his hands. He looked carefully, and then shouted: "Brown bear, bring a bucket of water here."

A bucket of water was delivered quickly, and Li Mo took the water and poured it on the pottery, and then wiped it carefully, finally revealing his true face.

There are many strange and complex symbols engraved on the black pottery.

He touched it lightly with his fingertips, and it was obvious that the pottery was carved with a hard object on the surface after it was successfully fired.

This is text?

Li Mo saw that one of the exposed complex symbols looked a bit like the shape of some kind of animal, but he couldn't figure out what it meant.

When it comes to the origin of characters, the earliest ones defined as characters were the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Up to now, more than 4000 oracle bone inscriptions have been unearthed, but only half of them have truly identified their meanings.

Li Mo didn't know much about oracle bone inscriptions, but only read a little literature, so the complex symbols depicted on pottery felt a bit like some oracle bone inscriptions.

"Brown bear, no one else is allowed to come down without my consent."

Zhao Guangliang, who was always by his side, also saw more than a dozen symbols exposed on the pottery. He had a bit of eyesight. Although he didn't understand what it meant, he knew that there was a possibility that a giant treasure would be born in this Neolithic cultural site. .

It will cause shocks in the entire cultural and archaeological circles.

Zhao Guangliang can understand Li Mo's meaning, the most important thing now is to be cautious.And if the pottery really has some kind of writing on it, the writing before oracle bone inscriptions, then the meaning it represents is not trivial.

"Mr. Li, do you think these are some kind of words?"

"There is such speculation. In fact, many scholars now believe that before oracle bone inscriptions, that is, the distant ancestor of writing is pottery inscriptions, just like this kind of symbols engraved on pottery. Many materials have been unearthed on pottery inscriptions, but they are not as written as oracle bone inscriptions. only a single symbol. From the Neolithic Age to the late Shang Dynasty, the earliest unearthed pottery inscriptions are Banpo pottery inscriptions, from about 4800 to 4300 BC. In addition, Dawenkou Culture, Longshan Culture During the Liangzhu culture period, there were also pottery inscriptions. Most of the pottery inscriptions were engraved on the black wide band pattern and black inverted triangle pattern on the outer edge of the pottery bowl, and very few were engraved on the outer wall of the pottery basin and the bottom of the pottery bowl. Generally, there is only one pottery inscription on the utensils. "

"It's a pity that experts can't decipher the meanings represented by those pottery inscriptions, and they can't find any similarities or connections between pottery inscriptions and oracle bone inscriptions. There are different opinions in the academic circles about the nature of these pottery inscriptions. Mr. Qiu Xigui, an expert on ancient characters, believes that it is A kind of 'mark', Mr. Guo Moruo thinks it is a 'symbol with the character of characters'. No matter what kind of conclusion they are, in fact, they also think that there is no connection between the unearthed pottery inscriptions and the later oracle bone inscriptions, and they cannot be translated. what they mean."

When Li Mo said this, he pointed to one of the complicated symbols and said, "This symbol is very familiar with oracle bone inscriptions, at least in form. I will dig out this pottery first, and then see how many such symbols are engraved on its outer wall." symbol."

It took about half an hour before a huge pottery appeared in front of several people. It was about one meter high, [-] cm wide in diameter, [-] cm wide in waist, and [-] cm wide at the bottom. Cylinders are really similar.

Li Mo first cleaned out the soil in the pottery jar, and then carefully moved it to the ground.The surrounding area has been cordoned off, so villagers far away cannot see what happened at the scene.

The brown bear and a few brothers have already brought several buckets of water for backup, and Shibin also came over and asked curiously: "It's really rare for such a big pottery."

"It's not rare, it's just never happened before."

Li Mo took the bucket and began to gently rinse the outside of the clay jar. As the soil on the surface was washed away, more and more symbols were exposed.

"Li Mo, is there some kind of writing on it?"

"It's not clear, I have no research on this."

After Li Mo cleaned the outside of the pottery jar, he discovered that this huge pottery was actually depicting images on one side. It seemed vaguely that many people were kneeling on the ground, and patterns like the sun and the moon were carved on the front and top of them.

It's like some kind of worship scene.

On the other side of the black pottery vat, there are many symbols carved on it. After careful observation, he found that several symbols appeared repeatedly, just like the current text, which were often used repeatedly when writing articles. In other words, these complex symbols seemed to be It has the function of recording and narrating in writing.

"Brother Bin, there is going to be a big commotion here, I will contact the teacher immediately."

(End of this chapter)