News soon spread in the village that there were antiquities buried in the wasteland, otherwise there would not have been so many police cars. A large cordon was set up as quickly as possible, almost surrounding the wasteland.

What Li Mo didn't expect was that Zhao Guangliang didn't know what was wrong in his head, but he even hired a car from a local TV station and broadcast it live.

He was slowly cleaning the black pottery in the pit, and there was a cameraman carrying a camera next to him who was taking close-ups. Zhao Guangliang was introducing from the side from time to time. He didn't know much about the black pottery of the Neolithic Age, but he knew about Li Mo's black pottery.

I still know a little bit about his origins, so I often point out that this young hero is an outstanding student trained by Peking University.

"Director Zhao, there is something I want to say beforehand. The shooting process can record the moment when the Neolithic Age artifacts were born, but my frontal photo cannot be shown. Otherwise, I can only ask all of you to leave the scene. You also

Don't deal with me, if I lose my temper, I'm afraid many people will have a hard time."

Zhao Guangliang was really thoughtful at first, thinking that as soon as Li Mo was happy, his life would be easier, but now he realized that he had obviously flattered the wrong person.

"Mr. Li, please rest assured that all scenes about you will be cut out during post-production editing."

Li Mo reminded him to forget it. His main focus was to clear out all the black pottery from this pit first, leaving the deeper parts to the subsequent teams.

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

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

"Ninety-two pieces are relatively complete, 18 pieces are damaged, and there are a bunch of fragments that can no longer be identified. According to your instructions, they are all protected and no one comes close."

"Every piece is precious, especially the black pottery of good quality. Professionals need to clean them carefully and carefully. Let the brothers cheer up."

"Boss, please don't worry, they are all like chicken blood. Mr. Shi also transferred people from who knows where. He transported a lot of supplies by truck and began to build a temporary shelter in this area.

shed."

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

"Understood boss."

Time passed quickly. After clearing out a few more items, Li Mo saw that it was already past four in the afternoon. It would get dark in another hour or so of work. When the greenhouse outside was built, lighting equipment would be installed.

He squatted down and carefully cleaned the pottery at his feet again. Judging from what he could see through his strange eyes, the pottery at his feet that had not yet been unearthed should not be simple, because the pottery was very large and had broken away from the category of ordinary pottery.

, a bit like the water tanks used in rural areas.

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

Pieces of soil were dug aside, and a villager in his forties who was more prudent picked the soil out again.

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

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

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

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

Is this text?

Li Mo saw that one of the complex symbols exposed 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 writing, the first thing that was defined as writing was the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. So far, more than 4,000 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 and had only read some literature, so when he saw the complex symbols carved on the pottery, he felt a bit like some oracle bone inscriptions.

"Brown Bear, no one else is allowed to come down without my permission."

Zhao Guangliang, who had been accompanying him all the time, also saw more than a dozen symbols exposed on the pottery. He was somewhat discerning. Although he did not understand what they meant, he understood that there was probably a huge treasure about to be born in this Neolithic cultural site.

.

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

Zhao Guangliang could understand what Li Mo meant. The most important thing now was to be cautious. And if this pottery really had some kind of writing on it, before oracle bone inscriptions, the meaning it represented would be extraordinary.

"Mr. Li, do you think these look like some kind of writing?"

"There is such speculation. In fact, many scholars now believe that before the oracle bone inscriptions, the distant ancestor of writing was pottery inscriptions, just like this kind of symbols engraved on pottery. A lot of information about pottery inscriptions has been unearthed, but it is not as written as the oracle bone inscriptions.

The text has only a single symbol. From the Neolithic Age to the late Shang Dynasty, Banpo pottery inscriptions are the earliest among the unearthed pottery inscriptions, dating 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 stripes and black inverted triangles on the outer edge of the pottery bowl. A few were engraved on the outer wall of the pottery pot and the bottom of the pottery bowl. Generally, there was only one pottery inscription on the pottery bowl.

"

"It is a pity that experts cannot decipher the meaning of those pottery inscriptions, nor can they find any similarities or connections between the pottery inscriptions and oracle bone inscriptions. There are different academic opinions on the nature of these pottery inscriptions. Mr. Qiu Xigui, an expert on ancient writing, believes that it is

A kind of 'mark', Mr. Guo Moruo believes that it is a 'symbol with a literal nature'. No matter what the conclusion is, they all believe that there is no connection between the unearthed pottery inscriptions and the later oracle bone inscriptions, and they cannot be translated.

Find out what they mean.”

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

symbol."

It took about half an hour, and a huge pottery appeared in front of a few people. It was about one meter high, about 60 centimeters wide in diameter, nearly 90 centimeters wide in the waist, and about 80 centimeters wide in the bottom. It was made of water used in rural areas.

The tanks are really similar.

Li Mo first cleaned the soil out of the pottery jar, and then carefully moved it to the ground. A cordon was cordoned off around the area, so villagers far away could not see what was happening at the scene.

Brown Bear and several brothers had already brought several buckets of water for later use. Shibin also came over and asked curiously: "Such a big pottery is really rare."

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

Li Mo took the bucket and began to gently rinse the outside of the pottery 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 this?"

"It's not clear yet, I haven't done any research on this."

After Li Mo cleaned the outside of the pottery jar, he discovered that this huge pottery actually had images carved on one side. It could be vaguely seen that there were many people kneeling on the ground, with patterns like the sun and moon carved in front of them.

This is like some kind of sacrifice to heaven.

There were many symbols carved on the other side of the black pottery jar. After careful observation, he found that several symbols were repeated. Just like the current text, they were often used repeatedly when writing the article. In other words, these complex symbols seemed like

It has the recording and narrative functions of writing.
Chapter completed!