# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-keightley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:48:01.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-keightley"
name: "David Keightley"
slug: "david-keightley"
description: "David Noel Keightley was an American sinologist. He was a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a published author covering the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the Chinese Bronze Age. He was best known for his studies of Chinese oracle bones and oracle bone script. His work changed the way that many Sinologists viewed Shang dynasty history."
tagline: "American sinologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-10-25"
deathDate: "2017-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.940497333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "吉德炜"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد كيتلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keightley"
    title: "David Keightley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keightley"
    title: "David Keightley"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_N._Keightley"
    title: "David N. Keightley"
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    title: "ڈیوڈ کائٹلی"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%88_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%B9%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "ڈیوڈ کائٹلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump