Talk:Oracle bone script: Difference between revisions

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::Yes, taking caution is certainly necessary. Good job finding those references. It will, however, take a multifaceted scholarly view to gain a full picture about the earliest evidence of Oracle Bone Script. If you could find a scholar who is of the strong opinion that there was a disturbance of the layers during the dig, then including that with the information you quoted above would be perfect.--<strong>[[User:PericlesofAthens|<font color="blue">Pericles of Athens</font>]]</strong>^{[[User talk:PericlesofAthens|<font color="#0000CD">Talk</font>]]} 15:29, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

:::Good point; I wasn't planning on incorporating my own suspicion without backup. Actually Qiu is is razor sharp and full of healthy skepticism, and he didn't mention disturbance. But it's hard to find good sources on this kind of stuff -- including discussions of why that layer is thought to be pre-Shang, and what, then, that layer IS. There are plenty of scholars who believe there MUST HAVE BEEN such writing in early Shang times or even those immediately preceding the early Shang, so perhaps I shouldn't be quite so skeptical, LOL. Anyway, I've found some more references to those two bones now, in Keightley and Woon, so it's off to the Academia Sinica library again. Woohoo! Does anyone else have these books? They're quite worthwhile![[User:Dragonbones|Dragonbones]] ([[User talk:Dragonbones|talk]]) 02:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

::::[[Chinese calligraphy#Evolution and styles]] does mention Zhengzhou material from the middle Shang period, though not on oracle bones, and it is said to consist mostly of single characters. There is a ref there, but I cannot tell if this is reliable as I don't read Chinese and this is not my field of expertise anyway. --[[User:Florian Blaschke|Florian Blaschke]] ([[User talk:Florian Blaschke|talk]]) 06:04, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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