#rongorongo — Public Fediverse posts
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One rongorongo tablet carbon dated to mid-15th century, which means the script could have developed before European contact! :Rongorongo:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rongorongo-easter-island-script-origins-study-2454761
#Rongorongo #EasterIsland #RapaNui #RongorongoScript #CarbonDating
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Alieni - Il linguaggio degli Dèi
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Radiocarbon dating of ancient scripts suggests a groundbreaking origin story.
#Polynesia #RapaNui #Language #History #Rongorongo
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a60204344/rapa-nui-language/ -
(This is interesting because one interpretation of #Rongorongo is that the glyphs are celestial navigation instructions.) The invention of writing on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - New radiocarbon dates on the Rongorongo script: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53063-7 -> Rapa Nui’s Rongorongo Tablets in Rome Radiocarbon Dated: https://www.archaeology.org/news/12151-240212-rongorongo-tablet-glyph
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The indigenous people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) have always said that their rongorongo writing was very old, but were generally not believed until quite recently. Researchers have now dated one rongorongo text to 200 years before the island had any contact with Europeans.
#RapaNui #EasterIsland #rongorongo #writing #Polynesia
https://www.archaeology.org/news/12151-240212-rongorongo-tablet-glyph
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This is pretty wild. As in "exciting"! 🏺😲
These new dates of a #RapaNui 🗿 #Rongorongo tablet (S. Ferrara et al., Sci Rep 14, 2794 (2024) 🔓) - before any known contact with literate societies - seems to suggest an *independent* invention of writing on #EasterIsland:
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Rongorongo, the Easter Island Language, May Be Unique and Older Than Previously Thought - Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/easter-island-rongorongo-discovery#History #Culture #Languages #Rongorongo #EasterIsland #RapaNui
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"A tablet of wood inscribed with the undeciphered #rongorongo script from the Eastern Pacific island #RapaNui [may be example of] one of the few independently invented #writingsystems.
The wood from one of four rongorongo tablets preserved in a collection in Rome dates to between 1493 and 1509 — +200 years before the first recorded arrival of Europeans on the island in the 1720s."
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Word of the day "#Rongorongo"
"Rongorongo is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts at decipherment have been made, with none being successful. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, none of these glyphs can actually be read[…]"
