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What is an oracle bone?

What is an oracle bone? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A piece of turtle shell or bone used for divination during the late Shang dynasty of China.
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Di controlled victory in battle, the harvest, the fate of the capital, and the weather, but, on the evidence of the oracle bone inscriptions, he received no cult.
After signing the contract with each other, our General Manager is sending the famous oracle bone inscriptions to our Canada Clients as gift.
Oracle bone script was a writing system used in Ancient china based on inscriptions in bones.
The name Zhou appears often in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang kingdom, sometimes as a friendly tributary neighbour and at other times as a hostile one.
Since the literal content of most jiaguwen is related to ancient religious, mythical prognostication or to rituals, jiaguwen is also known as oracle bone script.
Based on the dating of oracle bone inscriptions, the Shang king Pangeng moved his capital to a site near Anyang about1300 bce.

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