Unread oracle bone charactersEvidence
Evidence · Unread oracle bone characters
About 90 percent of the roughly 160,000 pieces are fragments, so the pool of possible joins is large but most…
About 90 percent of the roughly 160,000 pieces are fragments, so the pool of possible joins is large but most fragments carry only a few graphs.
What it means
Key questionHow many of the 150,000 fragments can still be rejoined, and how much context does rejoining recover for rare graphs?
No answer ahead yet
Openunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onAutomated rejoining recovers context at scale
Bears on1 for, none against
Still possibleunchanged
Next steps 1
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Watch for the results of the 2025 Anyang AI competition (due late October 2025) and record the number of algorithm-proposed joins confirmed by palaeographers.
~3 h
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 1
The Shang Dynasty Has An Unexpected Ally: AI
SRCOrientalist 2024
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). About 90 percent of the roughly 160,000 pieces are fragments, so the pool of possible joins is large but most… [Evidence EVD0DEDTN7RR3GV]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDTN7RR3GV
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