Things were great until Whitey showed up.
Rongo Rongo glyphs seem to bear some similarities to Linear A/B script, Minoans, and maybe Indus Valley figures. Might be universal shapes for commerce, inventory, stories.
Read long ago that elders said men sang to the stories in them.
...and produced medical miracles, abolished slavery, placed a man on the moon, made computers, and brought the Information Age to all the world while the rest of 'em were still trying to figure out how to get out of the Dark Ages.They just HATE Prometheus!
Talk about a bunch of ingrates!
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.
Showed up before or after the Short Ears slaughtered the Long ears?
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.
Please don’t use/buy into that racist/woke term “whitey/white-white is a color-Caucasian is a race-skin color is variable-woke people are badly educated and do not see that...
Those Easter Islanders-who were racially mixed Polynesians-had already ruined the place before Europeans got there by cutting down all the timber to build their canoes, cooking food, etc and hunted out most of the game-with the help of the rats they had brought over. Apparently they forgot that they were on an island, with canoes/rafts being the only way to go off and find more resources someplace else-and without being able to build new canoes, they were stranded-not very smart. That wooden tablet probably says says these people are a special kind of stupid-or something similar.....