USE ONLY MATERIALS FROM PARAGRAPHS 1 to 6.
Your summary, which must be in continuous writing (not note form), must not be longer than 160 words, including the 10 words given below.
Begin your summary as follows:
1 The rediscovery of the Shang began with the discovery of …
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5 shells having inscribed with strange characters that resembled written Chinese. Historians have argued about whether the tale is true. After Qing fell, China was called to use Western science and philosophy. Where archaeology could provide life of the past. Early digs focused on finding oracle bones. There is text on war and harvest, disease and childbirth; from the toothaches of kings to harm on the capital. They are many with descriptions of sacrifices of human and animal. Natural forces are feared and respected. Foreign tribes can be allies or enemies. Statement about the future used the bones to verify whether or not the event would occur. The diviners then applied a hot object until the surface cracked, oracle bones refer to persons who appear in traditional historical texts. some oracle bones discovered at Xiaotun, track more than 150 years at the end of the Shang era
