根据民国年间学者的记录、当代的调查走访及考古发现,探铲在上世纪20年代正式出现。在列强侵华、军阀混战、盗墓猖獗的历史背景下,为了提高盗掘技术,盗墓人对当地生产生活的工具进行改良和用途的转移,并注入已有的盗墓技术,产生了先进的探铲勘探技术。到了新中国成立初期这种技术已经非常成熟,并直接转化为田野考古的利器,成为一支正能量的技术。 According to the records of scholars during the Republic of China, contemporary surveys and archaeological discoveries, the discovery of mining shovel officially emerged in the 1920s. Under the historic background of the invasion of China by strong forces, the warlords and the rampant robbery, in order to improve the technology of robbing pirates, the gravesmen have made improvements to and used the tools of local production and life and injected the existing technology of tomb robberies to create advanced exploration-exploiting technology. By the early days of the founding of New China, this technology was already very mature and directly translated into the weapon of field archeology and became a positive energy technology.