Abstract
Astronomical observations first appear in China's archaeological record on turtle plastrons and ox scapulae from the reigns of the last few kings of the Shang Dynasty (1250–1046 BCE). A variety of meteorological and astronomical phenomena were divined about and recorded by scribes in formulaic language that is recognizably archaic Chinese. The oracle bone inscriptions record sacrifices to celestial bodies and the proper ritual response to anomalous phenomena like eclipses.
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Pankenier, D. W. (2015). Shang oracle bones. In Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (pp. 2069–2078). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_211
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