殷商甲骨存放方式新探

A New Approach to the Storage and Placement of Yin Shang Oracle Bones

甲骨文作为商代晚期的历史实证,是探讨我国早期档案史的重要史料。本文结合卜辞内容与甲骨物质形态,发现龟甲或兽骨的外形与卜辞文例、存放方式三者互相影响,形态的不同决定了存放方式的差异,不同的存放方式又会产生不同的甲骨文例。在当时不仅甲骨已具有查考利用的价值和可能,而且档案存放的形式也多种多样。

As historical evidence of the late Shang dynasty, the oracle bones are an important historical source for exploring the early archival history of China. In this paper the author combines the content of the divination and the material form of the oracle bones, and finds that the shape of the tortoise or animal bones, the divination text examples, and the storage method influence each other, with the difference in form determining the difference in storage method, and the different storage methods producing different oracle textual styles.Not only did oracle bones have the value and possibility of being recorded and used for research at the time, but archives were also available in a variety of forms.