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Chapter 153 Mystery
Kui and He follow the messenger of the Yougu tribe on their way home, and now there are no other sisters. Xiao lives in melancholy, and the cold weather suddenly becomes long.

In the end, Aoi still failed to understand Tai Chi gossip, but she learned a lot of other knowledge and techniques, and benefited a lot from this training. Before she left, she promised to lead her tribe to look up at the sky when she returned.

She did what she said, and a few days later, her Faith rose back to 230.

Zhang Tian spent 20 faith points to exchange for his beloved engineer shovel.

The sky gave another gift, just looking at the size of the engineer shovel, you can tell that this thing is extraordinary.

There is no doubt that the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven must have moved God.

The clansmen looked up to the sky piously, and loudly praised the generosity and kindness of the sky.

It was the first time Lin Yu witnessed Zhang Tian using his golden finger, and asked curiously, "Can anything be exchanged?"

"How is it possible? The wool comes from the sheep. These are my personal items, and not all personal items are in the exchangeable options. They are mainly food, tools, and weapons. I am almost done exchanging tools and weapons."

When he thought of this, he became angry. When he bought these things, he spent real money, and now he has to pay twice!
The eating looks so ugly, did Goose Factory inject money into my game?
Lin Yu let out a slightly disappointed "Oh" and didn't ask any more questions.

With the departure of the last messenger, the mountains and forests returned to silence. Just like every winter in the past, everyone stayed in caves without going out, children no longer ran around wildly, and everyone reduced their activities as much as possible. The occasional clear flute sounded, highlighting the unusualness of this winter.

In the first month of living at home, people chatted enthusiastically about the tribal meeting, the ceremonies, and the upcoming unknown journey... These topics were mentioned over and over again, until everyone felt bored, until one day everyone had a tacit understanding The land stopped talking, and the days became more and more silent.

Only Tian and Lin seemed to have a lot to say. Xiao often saw the two hiding aside and chatting secretly. The reason why he said it was secretly because whenever he approached, the two would keep silent or change the subject abruptly.

Xiao was somewhat depressed, so he looked for an opportunity to eavesdrop, but he found that the two of them were talking like singing, and he couldn't understand a single syllable.

Tian and Lin are communicating in a strange language!

What Xiao didn't know was that both Zhang and Lin were in control of his every move. When he asked, Zhang Tian took advantage of the situation and said, "Do you remember that when Lin first came here, she didn't speak the same language as us? She used to be in Taoyuan. Life, using the language of Taoyuan, I am learning this language, maybe I can use it in the future."

I see!No wonder I saw the two of them acting mysteriously recently, it turned out that they were learning languages!

Innocent and clever!Even the language barrier has been considered, and preparations are being made in advance!

"Then can I learn?" Xiao Xiao is a studious child.

"I'll teach you when I learn it."

"it is good!"

There were no secrets in the tribe, and Xiao Xiao was a big trumpeter, and within a long time, everyone knew about it.

After that, the two communicated in Chinese openly, and the clansmen only thought that Tian was learning Taoyuan language and didn't care.

The chat between Zhang Tian and Lin Yu was very complicated. They not only talked about interesting things about work and study in the past, but also discussed issues of an academic nature. Will accelerating the progress of civilization to a certain extent change history and create paradoxes...

These complex issues can only be explained clearly in Chinese.

Most of the time it is purely to pass the time, with no results and little meaning, such as the two talking about the cause of the Younger Dryas incident.

The Younger Dryas event is an important historical node that prompted humans to shift from hunting and gathering to farming. Regarding the reason for the sharp drop in temperature on a global scale 3000 years ago, the academic community is still inconclusive, and there are currently two mainstream views.

One is the "planetary impact theory".

Archaeologists have discovered a crater under a glacier in northwestern Greenland, and the timing is just right.Based on this, it is inferred that the huge energy released by the planet at the moment it hit the earth melted the ice sheet of Greenland, which changed the air flow in the North Atlantic Ocean and caused a sharp drop in global temperature.

Zhang Tian used the setting of planetary impact in the game.

Lin Yu scoffed at this statement. She believed that attributing archaeological anomalies and unsolved mysteries to meteorites from the sky was no different from the mechanical descent at the end of a novel. It was an extremely simple and crude approach.

She is more inclined to "melting ice caps said."

This school of view believes that due to the end of the ice age and the rise in global temperature, the North American ice sheet melted, and a large amount of fresh water was injected into the North Atlantic Ocean, which destroyed the thermohaline circulation of sea water. affected the global climate.

"We live in an era where no one is closer to the truth. We only need to go to Greenland to see who is right and who is wrong."

Lin Yu said in a slightly regretful tone that she knew very well that the existing conditions were far from enough to support her to find out the truth. Some mysteries may only remain mysteries forever.

What she can do is not to create more mysteries. Before she migrates, she intends to leave some definite and understandable traces for her colleagues 1 years later, so as not to save them from excavating this cave one day. The weird-shaped toys that children fiddled with scratched their heads.

Zhang Tian joked: "If you leave a doctoral thesis, all future generations of scholars will kneel down and respect you as a great pioneer of archaeology."

"If they think too much, they will only suspect that someone is making a fake."

It is not appropriate to use modern words to convey information. Too bizarre discoveries will lose the authenticity of the entire project, just like the engraving of "made in China" on an antique thousands of years ago, no matter how realistic it is, it can only be a fake.

The efficiency of pictures to convey information is far less than that of words, but on the other hand, it is not limited by language. Once language dies, the information carried by words will disappear and will never be known.

Pictures are not. It is intuitive and clear, and anyone in any era can understand it. Of course, the premise is that the level of the painter is high enough.

After obtaining the consent of the grandmother, the two went to the depths of the cave. There are murals left by their ancestors. It is difficult to preserve murals drawn with charcoal for a long time. Let alone 1 years later, in another 1000 years, there will probably be none left. what.

The contents of the murals are mostly ferocious beasts and various weapons and tools, which are not related to each other, lack of narrative, and the information that can be conveyed is limited.

With the theme of the tribal conference, Lin Yu used mineral pigments that are not easy to fall off and fade to reproduce the scene of hunters hunting giant beasts.

Ivory castles, mammoths, woolly rhinos, big-horned deer, and a group of two-legged beasts hunting with bows, arrows and spears... Dr. Lin's painting level is not very good, but he has no problem understanding it.

In addition to murals, pottery, stone tools and bone tools are also undamaged for a long time. They can fully display the daily life and technical level of primitive people, which is an important evidence for archaeologists to study primitive society.

Stone knives, stone axes, stone spears, bone needles, arrow clusters, fishhooks... The pottery is painted pottery. Compared with the painted pottery unearthed from the Yangshao Culture and Majiayao Culture, the painted pottery of the Dahe Tribe is obviously inferior in aesthetics. But it does not lose at all in terms of craftsmanship, and it is earlier in time, a full 5000 years earlier!

This discovery alone is enough to make archaeologists around the world ecstatic.

Crazier things are yet to come.

When her colleagues unearth these painted pottery, they will find that there are a few plant remains in the pottery. After a tedious and long cleaning, flotation and identification, they will recognize that these grains are mainly millet, with a small amount of quinoa and soybean, both There are signs of domestication!

Of course, the hexagrams at the bottom of the painted pottery cannot escape the keen eyes of archaeologists. In order to make the symbolic meaning of the hexagrams clearer, Zhang Tian deliberately put in two painted pottery with Tai Chi patterns to give modern people a little primitive shock.

Lin Yu can imagine the enthusiastic response from all walks of life when these two painted pottery were dug up, which will undoubtedly set off another wave of archaeological upsurge!

She has experience. The contemporary tea town ruins have just been excavated, and they have been frequently searched, which has aroused global attention and heated discussions. In the final analysis, it is because some oracle bones suspected to be inscribed with hieroglyphs were unearthed from the tea town ruins.

Compared with the plausible hieroglyphs, the meaning of the Taiji diagram is so straightforward that there is no need to expend energy to interpret it far-fetchedly. This pattern itself is a kind of culture, which has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. into their flag.

What does the 1-year-old Taiji diagram mean?
It means that the legend of Fuxi drawing hexagrams will be confirmed, which means that the origin of Chinese civilization will be greatly advanced!
Lin Yu blushed with excitement, as if the one who led the team to complete this great archaeological discovery was none other than herself!
It would be great if I could bury it myself and then dig it out... She thought to herself.

Zhang Tian didn't think so much, what happened 1 years later would not be relevant to him, he wouldn't live to that time, he was doing it purely with evil intentions.

In life, you have to have some fun.

Digging a pit with an engineer shovel is neat. The two buried carefully selected pottery, stone tools and bone tools in the pit. In order to prevent the latecomers from taking these things, digging a pit and burying it is the easiest and safest way .

"What are you doing?"

Xiao Xiao came forward, and the clansmen also cast curious eyes, wondering why the two of them buried these good things in the soil.

Zhang Tianzhengse said: "We have settled here for generations. This cave shelters us from wind and rain and provides us with recuperation. Before we leave, we should offer some sacrifices to express our gratitude."

Reasonable and reasonable.

This is just a small matter, but such details can especially reflect a person's character. Everyone is a little ashamed. They only care about preparing for the warm-weather migration, and they never thought of repaying the cave's protection.

"I'm here to help!"

"I'm coming too!"

Everyone scrambled to contribute, and a bigger pit was dug in a blink of an eye, and the "sacrifice" dedicated to the cave was filled with gratitude.

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The cold weather is long, but it is not idle, on the contrary, because the migration is coming, there are many things to do.

Men polish utensils day after day, and women sew clothes day and night, especially those who have just experienced childbirth and are pregnant. They sew swaddles for babies and sew kangaroo-like patterns on their clothes. Nursery bag for easy carrying of baby on the road.

Zhang Tian made horn bows for the clansmen who were good at archery.

With sufficient time and materials, he could carve and add some processes to improve the performance of the hornbow.

The cold weather is also a learning time for children, learning weaving skills, learning sanding skills, and children who are about to grow up also learn about gathering, hunting and mating.

Since becoming a wizard and having a stable position, Lin no longer worries about being dragged into forced mating by his clansmen.

It's time to be an adult.

She shows her aunt's blood to Auntie and Lanhua.

Orchid was so happy from ear to ear, which means that the blood of the wizard is expected to be passed on!
Coincidentally, a few days ago, the Snake Mother just told the women about the "art in the room" that she is proud of. There are some bold postures. According to the Snake Mother, it is through these postures that she absorbs the spirit of men. , gave birth to a healthy and strong baby.

Lanhua passed on this knowledge to Lin.

Lin Yu listened carefully, not only listening, but also occasionally asking some questions that make women blush, such as whether they feel happy during mating, whether the experience of mating with different men is different, whether the length of mating time is important...

When studying any ethnic group, sex is an unavoidable topic. The development of the marriage system is not only limited by the mode of production, but also closely related to people's attitudes towards the opposite sex and reproduction.

Zhang Tian also wanted to learn from his uncle Langya to learn the technique of making stone leaves, which is a technique that every adult man must master.

Regardless of the fact that Langya is often passive and sabotages work, and quits despite difficulties, he is actually a craftsman. His level of polishing stone tools is one of the best among men. This skill is the capital for him to gain a foothold in the tribe.

Among all the original techniques, the stone leaf crafting technique is probably the most difficult one. There is no shortcut, and it has nothing to do with talent, just one word: practice.

Zhang Tian and Xiao spent a whole morning practicing every day, swaying the stone hammer to beat the flint stone core one after another, feeling different force levels, different angles of impact, different hand speeds and different impacts. The influence brought by the method gradually accumulates the feeling.

It is common for novices to hit their hands on the road. Whenever the two of them are in pain, Lang Fang will laugh out loudly and disrespectfully. After laughing, he will say in a very serious tone: "Does it hurt? It hurts , knowing that making stone knives is not easy, you will cherish every stone knife even more."

Occasionally, my uncle would say something rich in reason like a wise elder.

Of course, life cannot be all work and study. Even animals know how to combine work and rest, let alone humans?

In the past, the clansmen enjoyed listening to stories told by grandma, but now they listen to stories told by Tian and Lin. Tian’s Ancestor series and Lin’s Taoyuan series are both particularly fascinating. The stories at night will be the most anticipated moment for everyone every day.

In addition, Zhang and Lin also taught them to paint, dance and play the flute. The rich entertainment activities made the long cold days no longer dull and boring.

(End of this chapter)