May 24, 2013

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Rongorongo The Easter Island Script

Rongorongo script on a wooden artifact.

When it came time for the island’s delegation to sign, the Spaniards were bemused to find that the islanders signed it in a confusing script that seemed to consist of small pictures representing humans and plants and animals.

Attenborough Explains Easter Island

The islands are Motu Nui, Motu Iti and Motu Kao Kao

From the Attenborough Special “The Lost Gods of Easter Island”

The Rapa Nui Genocide

Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Island

Islanders started to be abducted to replenish crew members and Europeans infected the women with various sexually transmitted diseases which further destabilized the volatile population.