Thanks DoodleBob for the ping, thanks george76 for the topic.
Posted on 02/10/2024 4:29:59 AM PST by george76
A wooden tablet discovered on Easter Island may pre-date European colonization of the region, researchers revealed in early February.
Less than 30 wooden tablets containing an undeciphered script called “Rongorongo” were found on the island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), four of which were removed in 1869 by Catholic Missionaries, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Those wooden tablets were analyzed using radiocarbon dating, and one of them was found to pre-date European settlement on the island, the study said.
Easter Island was “discovered” by Europeans in the 1720s, and absolutely decimated in the years following, the authors described. Though the ancient moai statues are still preserved, much of the island’s ancient writings and culture were lost to the violence of history.
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Here’s the issue: just because the wood pre-dates European exploration of the island doesn’t mean the script engraved into the wood does. But the fact the script can’t be deciphered just yet is significant. “If Rongorongo predates external travelers, it could represent another, and the latest, invention of writing in human history,” the study’s authors argued.
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“This is a great development,” another Rongorongo researcher not involved in the present study, Rafal Wieczorek, told Live Science.
“I actually believe that rongorongo is one of the very few independent inventions of writing in human history, like the writing of the Sumerians, the Egyptians and the Chinese,” he reportedly added. “But belief is a different thing than hard data … so ideally, we would like to test all the tablets.”
More research is needed to truly determine the age of the writing, as well as the words themselves. But the data thus far seems to suggest there are still hidden secrets within the history of the ancient world, just waiting to be released.
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Like the Rosetta Stone, the real trick is accurately deciphering the text, however mundane the content may be. Then they can get on with translating other texts written in the same language that may hold some real surprises.
I thought that the population of the island had already been devastated by the time European settlers arrived because they had oustripped the ability to grow food and had also used up all the available forest.
Thanks DoodleBob for the ping, thanks george76 for the topic.
The rest of the RongoRongo keyword, sorted:
In present computer lingo decimated sometimes means far more than one in 10. it can often mean 7 out of 8, or even 15 out of 16.
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Probably just a shopping list.
Milk
Bread
Eggs
Did you know that 10+10=11+11?
That’s what it used to mean. Language changes over time.
Showed up before or after the Short Ears slaughtered the Long ears?
****Churchward’s books were published in the 1930’s.****
I remember seeing paperback copies of these books at book stores in the late 1960s.
Translation from “Follow the Science”:
1-gal. milk
2-dz eggs
Can coffee
Didn’t they fall for the climate crisis of their time and stopped fishing then turned to cannibalism then vanished ?
They brought small pox and rats. Neither of those were good gifts for a island.
They did not realize they were bringing them of course and the problems they would cause.
Somewhere along the line Ive seen it proposed that its their variation of the ant man symbol.
American indians have the ant legs on both ends.
Similar to the symbol depicted as the lightning bolt carried by Sumerian gods.
Years back a Soviet KGB Supercomputer, said to break any code was used to try to read the Rongorongo tablets. They said that they are references to the planet Venus and other astrological events. But, many said it was just BS. We know the spoken language, just can’t read it (Yet). The name Rongorongo seems to imply whatever they hold was important. (You can say that again). I bet its religious stories and chants—most early writing are religious in nature.
LOL.
This is a good project for AI to translate.
I have The Lost Continent of Mu on my Kindle. It’s interesting, if not believable. Parts of it are out there.
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