- http://ea.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0432760-00.
- Klein, Donald W., and Peter J. Golas.
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- The Shang dynasty marks the beginning of China's Bronze Age. Written sources, the earliest extant, now supplement archaeological remains. Certain inscriptions on daggers, sacrificial vessels, and pieces of jade probably preserve the most primitive form of Chinese writing. More important for historians, however, are more advanced forms of inscriptions on the bones and tortoise shells used in scapulimancy. Discovered at the end of the last century, these "oracle bones," with their questions and, sometimes, answers concerning favorable times for the planting of crops, chances of success in a coming military campaign, the meaning of the king's dreams, and the like, have greatly added to our picture of Shang society.
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