# 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.

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# 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.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[How many of the 150,000 fragments can still be rejoined, and how much context does rejoining recover for rare graphs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQG2AZ12C/how-many-of-the-150-000-fragments-can-still-be-rejoined-and)

No answer ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Automated rejoining recovers context at scale](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS4CYCRZY/automated-rejoining-recovers-context-at-scale)

Bears on1 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## 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

[On: How many of the 150,000 fragments can still be rejoined, and how much context does rejoining recover for rare graphs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQG2AZ12C/how-many-of-the-150-000-fragments-can-still-be-rejoined-and)

**—** 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](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH8D7P6XC/the-shang-dynasty-has-an-unexpected-ally-ai)

Orientalist 2024

SRC

## Cite it

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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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**EVD** 0DEDTN7RR3GV

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Evidence

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/sessions/SES0DEDVWXKJN4C/session-1-the-unread-oracle-bone-characters-seeded-corpus) · 31 Oct 2026

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