National Forensic Doctor-Chapter 978 - 914: Guests and Hosts Fully Enjoyed

In the conference room, four professors sat up straight, and the students all craned their necks upward. It couldn’t exactly be said they were eager for knowledge, but at least they didn’t oppose the flow of information through their minds.

Jiang Yuan was quite satisfied with this. He had wandered through ten provinces, and although many local criminal police were obedient and disciplined, they didn’t really have a passion for knowledge. This didn’t affect daily case-solving, but it somewhat dampened the spirits of those imparting knowledge.

Jiang Yuan nodded and said, "After I went back and carefully examined these skeletons, the first thing I noticed was the fairly common morphological changes in the maxillary sinus. Half of the skeletons showed such conditions, suggesting chronic sinusitis of the maxillary sinus."

Sinusitis of the maxillary sinus is basically sinusitis. However, in today’s conference, Jiang Yuan naturally used the precise terminology favored by anthropologists rather than translating it to ’sinusitis.’

The specialized jargon among peers is both natural and necessary, as it tends to be more accurate and simpler than general language. It’s like saying "333" in a game rather than typing out "please retreat," or trendy young people forming a ’CP’ at an electronic music festival instead of bluntly proposing a temporary hookup agreement to be dissolved after a few days without further obligations.

Furthermore, there are four sinuses, so it is necessary to specify that it is the maxillary sinus.

Professor Tao Yajie exclaimed, "Half of them had this? I didn’t notice."

"There are a few that are quite hidden, but the changes in bone morphology are clear." Jiang Yuan signaled Wang Chuanxing to display the PowerPoint he had stayed up all night to prepare.

In the PowerPoint, Jiang Yuan had enlarged photos of several skulls and thoughtfully circled them in red to clearly indicate changes in bone morphology.

Students including Wang Weiqing expressed their sudden understanding with an "Oh" and couldn’t help but whisper among themselves.

One student couldn’t restrain his thoughts, saying, "A large number of individuals have sinusitis. Could this indicate that the climate at the time was relatively cold and dry?"

"Could there have been air pollution at that time?"

"Is it possible that governmental or noble families used coal or charcoal for heating, could this be the case? It’s said that the high mortality rate of Ming Dynasty princes was related to the charcoal used as tributes."

"It might also be because there was a prevalent disease at that time..."

Jiang Yuan and others let the students discuss. These points were summarized in textbooks or previous papers, and it was good to use them as a first-round of basic evidence now.

As the students discussed, several professors and other teachers in the group gradually joined in as well.

Jiang Yuan himself was more than happy for someone else to finish the follow-up analysis. For anthropology, finding that most people had sinusitis was like drawing an auxiliary line in solving a geometry problem. The problem is for everyone, the diagram is for everyone, but until someone draws the right auxiliary line, the problem cannot be solved.

After the auxiliary line is drawn, the steps to solve the problem are relatively simple, or even, the better the auxiliary line is drawn, the simpler the solving steps are.

Jiang Yuan effectively finished discussing the sinus problem in just a few sentences, but the related discussions naturally continued.

Tao Yajie hesitated and asked Jiang Yuan, "Is this not too much of a waste of your time?"

After all, this man had apprehended a group of tomb robbers in not much time.

Jiang Yuan waved his hand and said, "I am also interested in understanding everyone’s ideas."

His statement was sincere; he came to The Great Learning to participate in this work simply due to his interest. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have gotten involved at all.

Tao Yajie smiled and nodded, "Although young people’s discussions are somewhat superficial, their ideas are quite good, and often they have innovative points."

"It’s just right for me." Jiang Yuan modestly chimed in, also speaking truthfully. The discussion was not only about anthropological topics but also about archaeological ones, revolving around anthropology, which allowed him to gain some related knowledge, making it easier to target learning if necessary later.

And of course, if he could find some useful Legacy later on, that would be great too.

"Yong King’s Great Tomb is a very rare specimen domestically, with its main tomb mostly intact. Our paper plans to start from the lifestyle and burial ceremonies..." Tao Yajie briefed Jiang Yuan on the paper’s approach and said, "This time, being able to recover the stolen relics from the tomb, especially getting relevant photos, can be said to be in perfect condition..."

She was speaking, and Professor Sun agreed, "Indeed, the approach we’re taking this time is quite advanced domestically... Of course, thanks to Jiang’s help in retrieving the complete burial items from the tomb, this is also unique in our country..."

"I think it’s very promising to start from the clear indentations of kneeling at the Yong King’s tomb. We generally believe that kneeling wasn’t common during the Yong King era, but from the condition of these bones, at least Yong King himself and his family still retained the habit of kneeling." Tao Yajie naturally continued the discussion.

When Jiang Yuan heard this, he said, "Exactly, I was about to mention this point. The clear indents of kneeling are primarily from the Yong King and his spouse. I personally checked some contemporary literature and saw some photos, and I believe that the choice to kneel is closely tied to religious beliefs."

"Buddhist practices?" Tao Yajie unconsciously nodded, "That’s a substantial reason. We indeed found a large number of Buddhist scriptures among the funerary items."

"Doesn’t Buddhist practice conflict with sacrificial burial rites?" Professor Sun raised a question.

"That might be related to Yong King’s son." Tao Yajie responded.

Soon, a few more people joined the discussion.

Then Wu Jun also started participating. His unique insights about the funerary items, forms, and rituals in the tomb were discussed, despite his basic knowledge being somewhat lacking, he could still converse with several archaeologists.

This made the atmosphere of the discussion meeting exceptionally harmonious.

Jiang Yuan quietly waited until the end of work hours, watching Wu Jun exchange contact details with several people, then invited everyone for a meal.

The restaurant was already booked, a very fine delicacy shop.

As is well known, great tombs are built surrounded by mountains, and therefore, places where great tombs are unearthed naturally have delicious wild delicacies. Especially places with newly unearthed tombs, if the mountains remain undeveloped, it means the environment has been good since ancient times, and the regional wild delicacies tend to have an orderly inheritance and stable genetics.

Thus, if one has the money and leisure, isn’t bogged down by work, and does not have family obligations, and if one wishes to eat wild delicacies, one could entirely follow the address of the newly excavated tomb to find a local farm stay or a professional delicacy restaurant.

Jiang Yuan tapped into some social funds from his father and treated everyone to legally hunted wild game such as wild boar.

The gathering was merry and enjoyable.