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Rongorongo
Author | : Steven R. Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780198237105 |
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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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