Synopsis "Oracle Bone"

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oracle bones are pieces of bone or turtle plastron (underside) bearing the answers to divination chiefly during the late Shang Dynasty. They were heated and cracked, then typically inscribed using a bronze pin in what is known as oracle bone script. The oracle bones are the earliest known significant corpus of ancient Chinese writing, and contain important historical information such as the complete royal genealogy of the Sh ng dynasty. These records confirmed the existence of the Sh ng dynasty, which some scholars, until then, had doubted ever existed. The vast majority of the inscribed oracle bones date to the last 230 or so years of the Sh ng dynasty; oracle bones have been reliably dated to the fourth and subsequent reigns of the kings who ruled at Y n.] However, the dating of these bones varies from ca. the 14th -11th centuries BCE to ca. 1200-1050 BCE because the end date of the Sh ng dynasty is not a matter of consensus. The largest number date to the reign of king W D ng. Very few oracle bones date to the beginning of the subsequent Zh u Dynasty.

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