the last two kings. The start of this period is dated 1100-1090 BCE by Keightley and 1101 BCE by the Xia-Shang-Zhou project. Most scholars now agree that the Zhou conquest of the Shang took place close to 1046 or 1045 BCE, over a century later than the traditional date.

Shang divination

Since divination was by heat or fire and most often on plastrons or scapulae, the terms pyromancy, plastromancy and scapulimancy are often used for this process.

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