Dong Zuobin
Archaeologist who began the scientific excavation of Anyang in October 1928 and in 1933 published the ten criteria that divide the inscriptions into five periods tied to Shang kings. 1895–1963.
The unread oracle bone charactersDong Zuobin is excavator of Anyang and author of the five-period dating scheme for oracle-bone inscriptions. (1895–1963), and appears in the record of unread oracle bone characters as archaeologist who began the scientific excavation of Anyang in October 1928 and in 1933 published the ten criteria that divide the inscriptions into five periods tied to Shang kings.
Two events on the site involve Zuobin, from Dong Zuobin opens the first scientific excavation at Xiaotun, Anyang (Oct 1928) to Dong Zuobin publishes ten criteria dividing the inscriptions into five periods (1933).
One question rest in part on what Zuobin did or said, among them “How many distinct graphs does the oracle-bone script have once scribal variants are merged?”, which stands no evidence yet.
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Mysteries Department. (2026). Dong Zuobin [Person FIG0DEDJMJFQ1RB]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDJMJFQ1RB
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