It may be that the Chinese civilisation is even older...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2956925.stm

I agree with Professor Keightley, more research is needed to tell if it trully represents writing, or is even a disguarded oracle shell from a shang era ritual which some how found its way down there

Moved to History...

"In one grave, eight sets of tortoise shells were placed above the skeletal remains of a man whose head was missing. "

wonder what happened there?