• Twongo [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    the indigenous people of easter island invented writing in parallel to all other civilizations :)

    we have yet to decode it.

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      7 hours ago

      I think it’s unclear if it was developed wholly indepently or if it was done after some exposure to European writing.

      IMO it’s likely to be undecipherable because of small sample size, and the probability that the sample we do have was from a period of rapid evolution.