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What is oracle bone divination?

Oracle bone divination was the divination practice of the Shang court, roughly from the 13th to the 11th century BCE: people drilled and heated turtle plastrons or ox scapulae to produce cracks, read the cracks as the answer, then inscribed the question, the prediction and sometimes even the outcome onto the very piece of bone. This is the earliest layer of divination in China for which we have original texts to read.

From the article “Shang Oracle Bone Divination: What the Ancients Asked by Burning Turtle Shells and Ox Bones, and Why It Is the Earliest Layer of Divination with Writing”

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