Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China (Campus, No 335)

The sources of Shang history is focused on the era of the eight or nine kings from Wu Ting to Ti Hsin for which contemporary Shang inscriptions, a series of divination inscriptions carved onto approximately one hundred thousand scapula and plastron fragments over three thousand years ago, are available. David N. Keightley. Preface To The Second Printing P. V-vi. Focused On Period Ca. 1200-1050 B.c.-cf. P. Xiii. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. 229-256. Divining the future by the colorations, cracks, and other features of animal shoulder blades is a human custom widespread and venerable.