| 21. | The kings, in the order of succession derived from the oracle bones, are here grouped by generation.
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| 22. | Oracle script inscriptions on oracle bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the fifteenth Shang king.
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| 23. | Though innovative in many ways, he was skeptical of new archaeological findings, regarding the oracle bones as forgery.
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| 24. | In contrast, the earliest layers of the oracle bone characters, but the sample is too small for decipherment.
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| 25. | Historians have written evidence of Chinese mythological symbolism from the 12th century BC in the Oracle bone script.
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| 26. | Numerous oracle bones were discovered, most likely those of the miners, representative of their difficult and dangerous work.
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| 27. | At the same time, scholar Guo Ruoyu ( ��a ) was writing a book on the oracle bones.
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| 28. | A few, indicated below with their earliest forms, date back to oracle bones from the twelfth century BCE.
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| 29. | Fu Hao is known to modern scholars mainly from inscriptions on Shang dynasty oracle bone artifacts unearthed at Yinxu.
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| 30. | Until recently, such fragments were ground up and sold as medicinal " oracle bones " in traditional Chinese apothecaries.
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