num_pages: 736
description: 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.
language: English
title: Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text
titlecomplete: Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 14)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Clarendon Press