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David N. Keightley

Berkeley historian whose Sources of Shang History (1978) made the method of reading the inscriptions available in English and catalogued the scattered collections. 1932–2017.

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David N. Keightley is author of Sources of Shang History (1978), the standard English handbook on the inscriptions. (1932–2017), and appears in the record of unread oracle bone characters as berkeley historian whose Sources of Shang History (1978) made the method of reading the inscriptions available in English and catalogued the scattered collections.

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Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China

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Mysteries Department. (2026). David N. Keightley [Person FIG0DEDJNBFM8SR]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDJNBFM8SR

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