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=== Contents of tomb === [[File:Knife with animal-head Pommel (Fuhao tomb), horizontal.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Ibex-headed knife with ring, 13th-11th century BCE, found in Fu Hao's tomb. These weapons are similar to those of the steppes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rawson |first1=Jessica |title=Steppe Weapons in Ancient China and the Role of Hand-to-hand Combat |journal=ๆ ๅฎฎๅญธ่กๅญฃๅ (The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly) |date=2015 |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=38โ39 |url=https://www.academia.edu/20315661 |quote=We can immediately recognise the engagement of the Shang with their neighbours by looking at the nearly two hundred weapons buried with Fu Hao, who, as consort of the powerful Shang king, Wu Ding (c. 1200 BC), is mentioned in oracle bone inscriptions as a leader in battle. In her tomb were large axes (fig. 1a), derived from the shapes of ancient jade examples, standard spearheads and dagger-axes, ge, for an accompanying fighting force, and knives (fig. 1b) similar to those used in the steppe.}}</ref>]] In total, Fu Hao was buried with:<ref>{{Cite journal|last=YANG|first=BIN|date=2011|title=The Rise and Fall of Cowrie Shells: The Asian Story|journal=Journal of World History|volume=22|issue=1|pages=1โ25|jstor=23011676|doi=10.1353/jwh.2011.0011|s2cid=162003115}}</ref> * 755 jade objects * 564 bone objects, including nearly 500 bone hairpins and over 20 bone arrowheads * 468 bronze objects, including 130 weapons, 23 bells, 27 knives, 4 mirrors, and 4 tigers or tiger heads * 63 stone objects * 5 ivory objects * 11 pottery objects * 7,000 pieces of [[cowry shell]] (Shang dynasty currency) * 16 human sacrifices * 6 dogs
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