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Chinese oracle bone (16th-10th C BC) - BL Or. 7694

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Chinese oracle bone (16th-10th C BC) - BL Or. 7694

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Chinese oracle bone

Diviners of the Shang dynasty (16th-10th centuries B.C.) produced oracles by reading cracks on ox bones. Such bones bear the earliest writing known in China. The pit marks were produced by a hot poker.

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2016
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Originally published/produced in China, 16th-10th century B.C.
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