Why did the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor discover the remains of European craftsmen?

In the spring of 2003, the front area of the Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang will undergo environmental transformation, so we conducted an investigation on the site. When we visited the west side of the front area of the museum, we suddenly found a pottery kiln, so we dug it and found several human bones during the excavation.

According to Duan Qingbo, someone died at that time, and it was simply handled, so the bones were in a mess. In the TV series A Dream of Red Mansions, many people still remember the scene where Wang Xifeng was buried with a straw mat after his death. However, it is a special treatment for these workers to be buried with straw mats after their death. There are only traces of mats in the soil where they are buried, and more people just throw their bones into the labor graves and cover them with a little soil. A few days later, another worker died and threw it in. In this way, the bones in the laborer's tomb were covered by layers. Because there is soil in the middle as a space, and each worker has different movements when he dies and the direction of burial is different, it is still possible to separate each bone.

DNA identification of broken bones

Duan Qingbo said that the bones of 12 1 were originally intended for DNA identification, but because his archaeological research institute did not have research funds for this topic, he had to entrust the Modern Anthropology Research Center of Fudan University in Shanghai to do related DNA identification experiments. So, they randomly selected 50 bone samples, and finally found that one of them was not a "Qin Dynasty man" who could appear in the ruling field of Qin Shihuang, but a "foreigner" with the characteristics of Western Europe and Asia, a man aged 20-35.

Foreigners in Qin dynasty

What kind of people have the characteristics of Western Europe and Asia? Wang Jianxin, head of the Department of Archaeology at Northwest University, said that the so-called "characteristics of Western Europe and Asia" are judged from physical anthropology, human body and bone structure, and people with such characteristics are mainly Indo-Europeans. There are three basic races in the world, yellow race, black race and white race. Most people in China belong to Mongolian race and are yellow race, so we are always called descendants of the Chinese people. Ethnic groups with "Western European and Asian characteristics" mainly refer to Indo-Europeans, not whites.

In addition to Xinjiang, more western regions may also enter the Central Plains. Whether it is for trade or other reasons, it is not impossible. Duan Qingbo explained that with the help of DNA identification, it is still impossible to confirm which country this body belongs to. Because this relic is not well preserved, it is difficult to restore its original appearance. The Mediterranean coast, Iran and Iraq belong to the Indo-European race, and it is not impossible for them to enter the Central Plains for some reason.

Because the trade between the Western Regions and the Central Plains predated the Qin Dynasty, it is difficult to speculate whether this remains were the first people to come to the Central Plains. Wang Jianxin also put forward another theory. It is also possible that this person's grandfather came to Gansu, his father came to Shaanxi, and he entered xi 'an. In this way, he is the offspring left by people from the western regions after they entered the Central Plains.

No matter what kind of speculation, Wang Jianxin's conclusion is: "It is a person who came to the Central Plains for a certain purpose, perhaps for trade or for other reasons. However, he broke the law in the Central Plains. Because the punishment in Qin Dynasty was very cruel, he was sentenced to hard labor, so he began to build the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. Later, he died at this construction site and was buried until we found it. "