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with reference to our post of 25 June 2004 -- on the subject
of "Chinese Writing On 8,600 Year Old Tortoise Shells"

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChinaU/message/47

I have sent several emails today to researchers and
editors, and other commentators, and hope to track
down some of the images of the 11 Chinese Character /
Pictograms from 6600BC -- and the 14 Tortoise Shell
fragments on which they were written.

while waiting for further news, here are the best web stories
I have found -- from the last 18 months -- writing on the discovery
of the ancient pictograms / characters.

and can also forward two of the images I have found -- VERY small
format on the web -- of some of the characters. [I have enlarged and
focused the images as best I can, for your viewing.]

I was particularly interested to read the reference from the Antiquities
Journal publication of the article -- the reference by TU, BAIKUI. 2001 --
with the title "Consideration of the word 'zhen' as having the shape of
tortoise plastron at Buci, Yinxu." Kaogu Yu Wenwu (Chinese) 278-81.

Zhen is the Chinese Character for Truth, or TruthSpeaking!


http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=140893

[this is a copy of the Antiquities article -- unfortunately WITHOUT
the photos and graphics attached ...]

if anyone finds better webpages and photos -- and more recent --
please let us all know!


for ALL our sacred relations,





Millennium Twain


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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-5-2003_pg6_18 !!!

http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=140893 !!!

http://www.china.org.cn/english/2003/Jun/66806.htm !!!

http://www.nature.com/NSU/030428/030428-7.html !!!


http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2003/4/19/54447/6194 !!

http://www.china.org.cn/english/TR-e/5682.htm !!

http://www.clta-gny.org/originofwriting.htm !!


http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,951042,00.html

http://bric.postech.ac.kr/science/97now/03_4now/030429b.html

http://www.webster.sk.ca/GREENWICH/9ooo-1.htm


http://antiquity.ac.uk/Listing/ContPages/295index.html

Antiquity: A quarterly review of archaeology edited by Martin Carver, Volume
77:
Number 295,    March 2003, editor@...
Xueqin Li, Garman Harbottle, Juzhong Zhang & Changsui Wang
The earliest writing? Sign use in the seventh millennium BC at Jiahu,
Henan Province, China

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/1999-10/BNL-BLeh-041099.php

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030421/writing.html

These tortoise shells have pictograms carved into them from 8,600 years ago.
The small pile of stones are thought to have been used as an instrument,
or perhaps for counting. Courtesy of the Institute of Cultural Relics
and Archaeology of Henan Province, China

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