What can inscriptions from Anyang tell us about regional interaction?

Adam Smith

UCLA

The “location clause” (HD10)

Day 32, cracking, at ...

Spending the night... (HD10)

Day 32, cracking, Zi spends the whole night at ...

Extended stays and movement between localities

HD480

Day 3: “At , coming hunting from .”

Days 10 and 11: “At .”

Day 13: “At , coming hunting from .”

Reconstructed trajectory #1

1 or 2 day’s travel

Where is ? (1)

• HJ24347

• “Day 38 cracking, Xing divines: if the King goes from to , there will be no disaster.”

• Day 40 ... from to ... At .

• Day 46 ... from to ...

Reconstructed trajectory #2

< 2 day’s travel

< 7 day’s travel

1 or 2 day’s travel

Where is ? (2)

雇 hu 扈 Hu 《春秋》

“ 今河南省原陽縣原武鎮。”麥 來 Lai 《左傳》

“ 今鄭州市以東的花園口一帶。”

Where is ?

扈來

HD7 HD37 HD467

34

35

36

37

Synchronies between plastrons

Reconstructed trajectory #3

1 day

1 day1 day

≤ 3 days

1 ~ 3 days

Where are and ?

寧 《左傳》

“ 今河南省獲嘉縣。”

我 儀封 《論語》

“ 今（河南省）蘭攷縣東的儀封鎮。”

Where are and ?

寧

儀封

70-80 miles

Gift exchange involving Fu Hao; activities involving an altar (?) to Grandmother Geng, and an Eastern Hall ( 東館 ); sacrifice to Grandmother Geng; libation of “new wine” to Ancestor Jia.

(plastron receipts)

archery

archery

horse exchange and procurement, ancestral sacrifice, archery/hunting

Activities