| | Shang Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Information about the Shang Dynasty comes from inscriptions on bronze artifacts and oracle bones--turtle shells, cattle scapula or other bones on which were written the first significant corpus of recorded Chinese characters. |
| | The oracle bone inscriptions, which date to the latter half of the dynasty, typically recorded the date in the Sexagenary cycle of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, followed by the name of the diviner and the topic being divined about. |
| | An interpretation of the answer (prognostication) and whether the divination later proved correct (verification) were sometimes also added. |
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