Recent findings support the theory that Easter Island locals may have developed writing before the arrival of Europeans.
Up to half a century ago, researchers established that writing originated in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium B.C., and spread to the rest of the world, adapting to different languages. Since the 1970s, however, the decipherment of Maya and further discoveries has suggested that humans invented writing not once, but four separate times: in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica.
Rapa Nui was first settled by Polynesians between A.D. 1150 and 1280, where they developed a culture that today is most often represented by the iconicEuropean seafarers landed on Rapa Nui in the 1720s, and around a century later began raiding and kidnapping the locals. By the end of the 1800s, the Rapa Nui culture had been erased. Only 27 tablets of Rongorongo – about 17,000 glyphs altogether – survived, taken abroad by missionaries in the mid-19th century.
Before extracting the wood for the dating technique, the team also created the first-ever 3D models of the four Rongorongo tablets in Rome using a laser scanner. “The dating of the wood doesn’t mean that we can actually date the synchronic composition of the text, but the burden of proof is on anybody that claims that the actual text was written much later than the wood felling date,” Ferrara explains.“We dated exactly the moment when the tree was cut. It's crucial to consider that with the passing months, days, or even years, if the tree isn't well-preserved, it could dry out, rendering the wood impossible to use for writing," Talamo adds.
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