Rongorongo Epigraphy Topics Archaeology
Rongorongo Epigraphy Topics Archaeology
Rongorongo
The indigenous writing of Easter Island, first mentioned in 1864, and still undeciphered.
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- Pictures and samples of text including a partially translated lunar calendar.
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- Bishop Jaussen's list of glyphs, with their readings as collected from his informant Metoro Tauara. Used by many as a key to decipherment.
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- A comparison by Egbert Richter-Ushanas of the Indus Script and the Rongorongo Script of Easter Island.
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- Steven Fischer attempts to decipher the hieroglyphic writing of Easter Island. Includes a response to Jacques Guy's criticism.
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- Jacques Guy gives an image and resume of the argument by Yuri Knorozov and Nikolai Butinov in 1956 that a certain sequence of signs was compatible with a genealogy.
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- Jacques B.M. Guy describes this unique writing system and the attempts at its decipherment. Includes a critique of Stephen Fischer's proposed decipherment.
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- Papers by Sergei V. Rjabchikov claiming to decode this mysterious script.
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- Extensive corpus of Rongorongo hieroglyphic text, translation tools, Rapanui grammar and dictionary.
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