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Funerary Multi-burner Stoves Puzzle Archeologists
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2001-12-25
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| Stoves unearthed recently out of a 2,000-year-old tomb have led local archeologists to wonder why their forefathers needed to use multi-burner cookers. Archeologists uncovered some 26 multi-burner stoves over the past two months in Wushan, a county in the Three Gorges Dam area, according to the Chongqing Evening News. There are signs that all the stoves had been used before they were buried with the dead, but remained intact when they were unearthed. Funerary stoves are found frequently in ancient tombs across the country, but what puzzled the scientists was that most stoves were holding four or five burners. The largest one had nine. Some experts presumed from the number of burners on the stove that people in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24 A.D.) must have lived in big families. They said they can even figure out the diets of the Han people from the kettles, frying pans and pots on the stoves. Some held that most stoves were used for abstracting salt from the local water, rather than for cooking daily dishes. Others, however, believed the stoves were just tokens that embodied the Han people's longing for a better life. |
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