Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script : History, Traditions, Texts (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 14, Band 14) - Hardcover

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This book is the first comprehensive documentation of Rongorongo, Easter Island's enigmatic script and Oceania's only known pre-twentieth-century writing system. The author tells the full history of rongorongo's exciting discovery and the many attempts at a decipherment and provides full transcriptions of all the 25 surviving rongorongo inscriptions along with detailed photographs of nearly every incised artifact.

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