By 1928, when the Academia Sinica began a program of excavations near Xiaotun Village in He'nan's Anyang County, many oracle bones had already found their way onto the market.
等到民國十七年（西元一九二八年），中央研究院在河南安陽小屯村附近正式展開發掘時，許多甲骨早已流入市場。