The fat old man asked Chen Jian’s question involved archaeology!

Chen Jian had no idea about archaeology, he only knew what archaeology does, and Chen Jian could not think of any professional issues involved in archaeology for a moment!

Archaeology, that is, examining ancient disciplines, belong to the humanities and is a branch of history, while other countries in the world mostly belong to anthropology.

Archaeology aims to study the history of ancient human society based on material data left over from various activities of ancient humans.

In other words, archaeology is actually about examining antiquities!

Many people will say that archaeology is just about digging graves. People who say such words either have little knowledge or say this in a joke.

However, even if it is a joke, this is beyond the scope of normal jokes. It is a malicious joke and is a great disrespect for the archaeology major!

Generally speaking, ancient tombs will not be allowed to be excavated. The ancient tombs that will be excavated are often dug by accident due to infrastructure construction and other behaviors, so that cultural relics protection units will come forward for rescue excavation!

There are many reasons for excavation of ancient tombs, and the first thing to bear is cultural reasons. Eastern culture advocates being buried in peace. Digging ancient tombs is contrary to traditional concerns and affects the emotions of descendants of ancient tombs.

The other is the reason for social influence. The conflict between the concepts of digging ancient tombs and modern society will cause social conflicts and destroy social atmosphere.

From a technical perspective, the current cultural relics protection technology is not mature enough. Blind excavation will cause unnecessary damage and losses to cultural relics. However, cultural relics are stored in underground ancient tombs, and the preservation effect is much better than excavating them before protection.

Everything will involve interests, and the excavation of ancient tombs is no exception. Large-scale excavation of ancient tombs will arouse the covetousness of criminals and will cause criminals to take risks. Cases of stealing cultural relics in large quantities and selling cultural relics will inevitably surge, which will cause damage and flow of cultural relics.

When it comes to interests, the law is involved. At present, the provisions on the excavation of ancient tombs are not perfect in legal policies.

Based on these reasons, it is not wise to excavate ancient tombs, obtain cultural relics, and conduct archaeological research!

"You old man, don't take the exam for me. I basically haven't dabbled in archaeology and can't think of anything." Chen Jian finally spread his hands helplessly and said.

Seeing that Chen Jian did not answer the questions he asked, the fat old man shook his head in disappointment and said, "The rubbing you brought back overlaps with the symbol on the bronze tripod unearthed from Sanxingdui that I mentioned, but there are no similar cultural relics unearthed from Sanxingdui. Therefore, a thorough study of the bronze tripod was conducted and finally confirmed that this bronze tripod is not a cultural relic of the Sanxingdui civilization!"

Hearing the fat old man's words, Chen Jian asked suspiciously: "Then does this bronze tripod belong to the Eastern civilization in the Yellow River Basin?"

"Not bad!" The fat old man nodded and said, "At present, there are archaeological experts who overturned the previous determination, that is, the judgment that there is no intersection between the Eastern civilization and the Sanxingdui civilization!"

"The bronze tripod belongs to the Eastern civilization in the Yellow River Basin, but was discovered in the Sanxingdui civilization in the Yangtze River Basin, which shows that the two civilizations actually have intersections!" Chen Jian nodded and understood what the fat old man said about the archaeological expert.

"But this is not rigorous enough!" said the fat old man: "At least, this new view cannot be truly established at present, because the intersection of civilizations will inevitably lead to the exchange of manufacturing products. If the two civilizations intersect, the cultural relics of the Sanxingdui civilization in the Yangtze River Basin should be unearthed in the Eastern Civilization Site in the Yellow River Basin! But there is no such discovery at present!"

After a pause, the fat old man continued: "And so many cultural relics have been unearthed at the Sanxingdui civilization site in the Yangtze River Basin, but only this bronze tripod is the oriental civilization of the Yellow River Basin. This is also unreasonable. It is not realistic to have such a new viewpoint at present!"

Obviously, what the fat old man said to Chen Jian at this time was already the view of archaeological experts on the new discoveries.

Before this view is confirmed, it has no great value. At best, it only provides a direction of thinking. Only when it is proven can it be a valuable view.

Chen Jian nodded silently and did not respond because this exceeded the scope of the knowledge Chen Jian learned.

"In addition, the rubbings you sent back also triggered new arguments on the view that the Sanxingdui civilization disappeared, or it could be said to be used as evidence!" said the fat old man again.

"The reason why the Sanxingdui civilization disappeared?" Chen Jian asked in confusion.

"I have told you just now that the reason why Sanxingdui civilization is still difficult to crack is because Sanxingdui civilization and Eastern civilization have no intersection, exist independently, and disappear independently!" The fat old man nodded and said: "Based on this situation, there is a view that Sanxingdui civilization has disappeared by itself! The main basis for experts and scholars who hold this view is that civilizations do not intersect!"

Chen Jian nodded silently, this view is obviously a very logical point of view.

The fat old man said at this time: "And another view believes that the Sanxingdui civilization was destroyed by Eastern civilization. Experts and scholars who hold this view make judgments based on the judgment that once two independent civilizations come into contact, civilizations on the weak side will be eliminated and annexed, but this view has not been supported by strong evidence for a long time!"

After hearing this, Chen Jian suddenly realized and said, "The rubbings I sent back overlap with the symbols on the bronze ware. After conducting new research on bronze ware, he found that bronze ware belongs to the Eastern civilization in the Yellow River Basin. Therefore, the view that this Sanxingdui civilization was destroyed by Eastern civilization is supported by evidence?"

"Yes, that's true!" The fat old man nodded and said, "However, experts and scholars who hold another view immediately refuted this. The basis for their refutation is that any civilization will be more or less affected by other civilizations while annexing other civilizations, or assimilating them. However, at present, no shadow of the Sanxingdui civilization has been found in the Eastern civilization, whether it is a cultural relic or other aspects!"

"Doesn't this mean that the rubbings I sent back triggered an academic war in the archaeological world?" Chen Jian looked at the fat old man with a laugh and cry and said.

The fat old man said seriously: "In fact, it is indeed the case!"
Chapter completed!