One character is repeated multiple times:
Decimated means to remove one in ten. Ten percent. Grrrrrrr!
Things were great until Whitey showed up.
Maybe it’ll tell us how old Biden really is.
The Europeans rescued the Easter Islanders from an environmental disaster caused by Polynesian rats.
The Easter Islanders were stranded because the rats (with some help by humans) deforested the island, so they were no longer able to build canoes and go to sea.
The plank of wood says, “Drink more Ovaltine!”
Or...they may hold NO secrets.
One character is repeated multiple times:
When I was just a tadpole, my Aunt Dory, who was seriously interested in archaeology, gave me a series of books, written by Col. James Churchward, dealing with “The Lost Continent of Mu”
To be sure, the guy was a little “off the rails,” but the books did contain some interesting stuff, such as the similarity of glyphs and symbols found in cultures and languages all over the ancient world.
Churchward devoted some studies to Easter Island and the “writings” found there.
Keep in mind, Churchward’s books were published in the 1930’s. Maybe I’ll drag them out and take another look at them. See what correlates with these new discoveries.
At any rate, Aunt Dory, I love you and I miss you.
Ping
Probably just a shopping list.
Milk
Bread
Eggs
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 ?
This is a good project for AI to translate.
So ancient tablets on a remote island hold the secrets of the ancient world? Okay.....more likely they hold the secret to a really good pina colada.
"A series of devastating events killed or removed most of the population in the 1860s. In December 1862, Peruvian slave raiders struck. Violent abductions continued for several months, eventually capturing around 1,500 men and women, half of the island's population. Among those captured were the island's paramount chief, his heir, and those who knew how to read and write the rongorongo script, the only Polynesian script to have been found to date, although debate exists about whether this is proto-writing or true writing.
When the slave raiders were forced to repatriate the people they had kidnapped, carriers of smallpox disembarked together with a few survivors on each of the islands. This created devastating epidemics from Easter Island to the Marquesas islands. Easter Island's population was reduced to the point where some of the dead were not even buried."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island
"When the slave raiders were forced to repatriate the people". The repatriation was championed by the Catholic Church.
How can something so Rongo be so write?..................