About 30 wooden objects from the remote island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, in the South Pacific Sea bear an engraved script that remains untranslated. Experts have long wondered whether ...

The spread of the Polynesian culture across the Pacific was the greatest migration in humanity's history. All indications are that the Polynesians started in Taiwan and made it to the Americas while ...

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is one of the most isolated places in the world, located around 3,600 miles off the coast of Chile, which annexed the territory in 1888. The eponymous island is named for ...

A wooden tablet inscribed with the undeciphered rongorongo script from Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) dates to the 15th century, long before Europeans arrived. This early date suggests that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Most logosyllabic scripts opt for special word-signs denoting colour terms even though colours are abstract properties which are impossible to ...