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A tomb at the Bronze Age (ca. 3000–700 b.c.) site of Zhaigou in northern China contained chariots and the burial of a high-ranking member of what Shang Dynasty (ca. 1600–1046 b.c.) records call a fang guo, or border state.
The earliest known Chinese writing is some 3,200 years old and survives on pieces of cattle bones and turtle shells, their cracked surfaces covered with finely carved characters. These artifacts, which date to the Bronze Age, are known as oracle bones and were used by t
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