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出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/06 15:07 UTC 版)

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Oracle bones (Chinese: 甲骨; pinyin: jiǎgǔ) are pieces of bone normally from ox scapula or turtle plastron (underside) which are used for divination chiefly during the late Shang Dynasty. The bones are inscribed with divination in oracle bone script (Chinese: 甲骨文; pinyin: jiǎgǔwén) by using a bronze pin. They were later heated until crack lines appeared in which the divinations are read. However in later Zhou Dynasty, cinnabar/ink and brush is preferred as writing method resulting in lesser carved inscription and often blank oracle bones being unearthed. The oracle bones bear the earliest known significant corpus of ancient Chinese writing, and contain important historical information such as the complete royal genealogy of the Shāng dynasty. These records confirmed the existence of the Shāng dynasty, which some scholars, until then, doubted.