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| Investigating the Tool Marks on Oracle Bones Inscriptions from the Yinxu Site (ca., 1319-1046 BC), Henan Province, China | |
| Zhao, Xiaolong1,2; Tang, Jigen3; Gu, Zhou1,2,4; Shi, Jilong5; Yang, Yimin1,2; Wang, Changsui1,2 | |
| 2016-09-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE
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| 卷号 | 79期号:9页码:827-832 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Shang dynasty (1600-1046 BC) are the earliest well-developed writing forms of the Chinese character system, and their carving techniques have not been studied by tool marks analysis with microscopy. In this study, a digital microscope with three-dimensional surface reconstruction based on extended depth of focus technology was used to investigate tool marks on the surface of four pieces of oracle bones excavated at the eastern area of Huayuanzhuang, Yinxu site(ca., 1319-1046 BC), the last capital of the Shang dynasty, Henan province, China. The results show that there were two procedures to carve the characters on the analyzed tortoise shells. The first procedure was direct carving. The second was "outlining design," which means to engrave a formal character after engraving a draft with a pointed tool. Most of the strokes developed by an engraver do not overlap the smaller draft, which implies that the outlining design would be a sound way to avoid errors such as wrong and missing characters. The strokes of these characters have different shape at two ends and variations on width and depth of the grooves. Moreover, the bottom of the grooves is always rugged. Thus, the use of rotary wheel-cutting tools could be ruled out. In most cases, the starting points of the strokes are round or flat while the finishing points are always pointed. Moreover, the strokes should be engraved from top to bottom. When vertical or horizontal strokes had been engraved, the shell would be turned about 90 degrees to engrave the crossed strokes from top to bottom. There was no preferred order to engrave vertical or horizontal strokes. Since both sides of the grooves of the characters are neat and there exists no unorganized tool marks, then it is suggested that some sharp tools had been used for engraving characters on the shells. Microsc. Res. Tech. 79:827-832, 2016. (C) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
| 关键词 | Extended Depth Of Focus (Edf) Oracle Bone Inscriptions Tool Marks Yinxu Site (Ca 1319-1046 Bc) |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine ; Technology |
| DOI | 10.1002/jemt.22705 |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 项目资助者 | National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1432243) ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(2013281) |
| WOS研究方向 | Anatomy & Morphology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Microscopy |
| WOS类目 | Anatomy & Morphology ; Biology ; Microscopy |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000382189700007 |
| 引用统计 | |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7027 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Archaeol, Anyang 455000, Peoples R China 4.China Printing Museum, Beijing 102600, Peoples R China 5.Beijing Inst Graph Commun, Coll Printing & Packaging Engn, Beijing 102600, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhao, Xiaolong,Tang, Jigen,Gu, Zhou,et al. Investigating the Tool Marks on Oracle Bones Inscriptions from the Yinxu Site (ca., 1319-1046 BC), Henan Province, China[J]. MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE,2016,79(9):827-832. |
| APA | Zhao, Xiaolong,Tang, Jigen,Gu, Zhou,Shi, Jilong,Yang, Yimin,&Wang, Changsui.(2016).Investigating the Tool Marks on Oracle Bones Inscriptions from the Yinxu Site (ca., 1319-1046 BC), Henan Province, China.MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE,79(9),827-832. |
| MLA | Zhao, Xiaolong,et al."Investigating the Tool Marks on Oracle Bones Inscriptions from the Yinxu Site (ca., 1319-1046 BC), Henan Province, China".MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE 79.9(2016):827-832. |
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