| 11. | The culture prepared its oracle bones by drilling and polishing the bones before heating them.
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| 12. | Oracle bones contained descriptions of the date, ritual, person, ancestor, and questions associated with the divination.
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| 13. | Although it was a fully functional writing system, the oracle bone script was not fully standardized.
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| 14. | These ancient characters are called oracle bone script.
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| 15. | Among Dong's achievements was his division of the evolution of the oracle bone writing into five stages.
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| 16. | Dong accepted an invitation to lecture on oracle bone inscriptions in the United States in January 1947.
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| 17. | The oracle bones bear the earliest known significant corpus of ancient some scholars had until then doubted.
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| 18. | Often, the king would even perform oracle bone divinations himself, especially near the end of the dynasty.
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| 19. | These questions were carved onto the bone or shell in oracle bone script using a sharp tool.
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| 20. | One good example is shown in the fragment below, labeled " oracle bone script for Spring ".
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