The so-called "Waste of Yin" was an important site for the collection of these items, which sometimes bore messages about toothache, the success of deer-hunting, or appropriate dates for the (*) birth of a child.
Broken pieces of these items were reassembled by James Mellon Menzies, a Canadian-born Presbyterian missionary. Female members of genus Ocadia were raised in captivity in order to produce these items. The so-called "Waste of Yin" was an important site for the collection of these items, which sometimes bore messages about toothache, the success of deer-hunting, or appropriate dates for the (*) birth of a child. A pharmacy in Tianjin during the Boxer Rebellion was supposedly the site of the rediscovery of these items, which were originally made by inscribing the plastron of a turtle shell or the scapula of an ox. For 10 points, the intense heat of the fire pit produced patterns of cracks in what items used to predict the future in Shang dynasty China?
Broken pieces of these items were reassembled by James Mellon Menzies, a Canadian-born Presbyterian missionary.
oracle bones (or jiagu)