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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.
Decimated means to remove one in ten. Ten percent. Grrrrrrr!
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.
Much of our ability to communicate can be traced to commerce, I think.
Maybe it’ll tell us how old Biden really is.
“ Decimated means to remove one in ten. Ten percent. Grrrrrrr!”
I know, drives me crazy too. It’s right there in the words, dec = ten
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.
So, what you are saying is that the excellent communication we have today is the result of evolutionary globalism?
(Providing Freepers an opportunity to flog the Globalist Boogieman)
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I said all that?
...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!
Don’t give him any ideas, Biden will likely tell us he was there one those wooden tablets were left behind, along with Corn Pop and Nelson Mandela.
Tune in next week…
The meaning has evolved.
Rongo Rongo from the Bongo Congo?
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.
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