Nowadays, the country's control over tomb robbery is relatively strict, unless it is bold and deadly, ordinary people do not dare to risk going underground to explore treasures. However, the phenomenon of tomb robbery in ancient times was more common, not only civil thieves, but also official thieves. However, whether it is a civil thief or an official thief, they need to use tomb robbery tools, such as the well-known "Luoyang shovel" is the first weapon in the hands of tomb robbers on Luoyang Mountain during the Republic of China.
The invention of the "Luoyang shovel" had a great impact on the Central Plains, but the tomb robbery activities throughout China had a great impact. To exaggerate, the Luoyang shovel can be understood as a revolutionary leap in the history of tomb robbery, which has had an important impact on modern archaeological exploration. Just how magical is the Luoyang shovel, and what special functions does it have? To sum it up in one sentence: it can easily take out the underground soil sample completely!
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There are many kinds of tomb robbery tools, such as steel shovels, short-handled hoes, iron cones, shovels, and cross pickaxes, but they can't do the function of taking out the soil samples intact like the Luoyang shovel. After the soil sample is taken out, the tomb robbers make a specific analysis and judgment on the scene according to their own experience, so that they can judge whether there is an ancient tomb below, what kind of ancient tomb is of what age, what kind of funerary products are in the tomb, etc. The information in this aspect is sometimes more accurate than the analysis of modern survey instruments.
On-site soil analysis in the circle jargon is called "looking at the soil", which is also one of the basic skills that must be mastered as a tomb robber. This ability to see the soil, there is another saying in the circle, called than "eyesight". The eyesight is sufficient and the soil is accurate, and the higher the status in the circle of tomb robbers, the lack of eyesight is called "two or five eyes". Therefore, the foot and inadequacy of eyesight determine the position of tomb robbers in the circle. People with enough eyesight will not miss a tomb, and the circle calls this kind of person "eye poison".
There is also a special magic and special thing about the "Luoyang Shovel", that is, it is highly efficient to use! So how efficient is that? Ma Ji used 100:30 to visualize the difference between a Luoyang shovel and a steel shovel. If this data is not intuitive enough, let's take a concrete example. There are densely packed probe holes in many parts of the mountain, how long will it take to complete so many holes?
In fact, one person fights continuously, and it is enough to play in the middle of the night. It turns out that the Yaoshan area is full of deep yellow soil, pure soil, and skilled tomb robbers can hit one in 5 minutes when they drill holes. Therefore, many pieces of land on the mountain were fine during the day, and when they looked at it the next day, it was like a hole that had been hit by a rat, which showed that the tomb robbers used the high efficiency of the Luoyang shovel. This kind of large-area intensive exploration of the hole to find the tomb, the circle is called "turning", archaeologically called "general exploration".