Human Sacrifice, Oracle Bones, and Shang China: Interview with Professor Rod Campbell
Tides of History
What Is the Shang Dynasty?
Shang is a dynasty in the sense of a ruling family, at least as ed by their genealogy. It's possible these ancestors weren't actual rulers. But then does that make it not a dynasty? I'm not that sceptical. There's enough lines of evidence that sort of suggest that probably there were a few centuries of a dynasty that was probably calling itself shang before them.
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