Editing Writing (section)

=== China ===
{{Further|Oracle bone script|Chinese bronze inscriptions}}
The earliest surviving examples of writing in China{{snd}}inscriptions on [[oracle bone]]s, usually tortoise [[plastron]]s and ox [[scapula]]e which were used for divination{{snd}}date from {{cx|1200 BC}}, during the [[Late Shang]] period. A small number of bronze inscriptions from the same period have also survived.{{sfnp|Boltz|1999|pp=74–123}}