# David N. Keightley · Person

> Berkeley historian whose Sources of Shang History (1978) made the method of reading the inscriptions available in English and catalogued the scattered…

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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.**

[The unread oracle bone characters](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered)[1 source]

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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## In the mysteries

**The unread oracle bone characters**

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## Sources 1

[Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFXAMZWYF/sources-of-shang-history-the-oracle-bone-inscriptions-of)

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Person

Born

1932

Died

2017-02-23

Occupation

historian, sinologist

Identity

Author of Sources of Shang History (1978), the standard English handbook on the inscriptions.

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