Editing Oracle bone script (section)

== Zhou-era inscriptions ==
{{Further|Chinese bronze inscriptions}}
[[File:Zhou-inscription.png|thumb|right|upright|Hand copy of a Zhou inscription{{sfnm|Liu|1989|1p=67|Gao|1996|2p=327}}]]
There are relatively few oracle bone inscriptions dating after the conquest of the Shang by the [[Zhou dynasty]] ({{circa|1046&nbsp;BC}}). From their initial discovery during the 1950s, only a handful of examples from this later period had been uncovered, and those that did were fragments consisting of only one or two characters. In August 1977, a cache containing thousands of Zhou-era oracle bones was discovered at a site closely linked to the ancient Zhou heartland. Among thousands of pieces, 200–300 bore inscriptions.