The Rongorongo Scripts Mystery Rapa Nui, or as it known today, Easter Island is about 64 square miles. It is located in the South Pacific Ocean about 2,300 miles west of Chile and 2,500 miles east of Tahiti. Dutch explorers named it Easter Island in commemoration of the day of their arrival in 1722. After annexation from Chile in the 19th century, it maintains its economy based on tourism today with people coming from across the globe to see the almost 900 giant stone figures. These huge stone heads date back many centuries. Almost as mysterious as the statues found on the island are the tablets covered in Rongorongo script which were found on the island. The language has yet to be deciphered by professionals across the globe and can prove …show more content…
More recent archeological work has now challenged almost every concept of the previous ecocide idea. New studies have shown that the massive stone statues didn’t need logs to move around the island. Instead, researchers found that they could actually walk. Specially built roads were constructed for the statues and with a set of teams and ropes, the statues could be walked along the path the same way that a modern refrigerator can be walked across a kitchen. By shifting the weight of the structure back and forth along pivot points, the heavy stones could be walked to their destination. Log rails would not be necessary, and, therefore, the deforestation of the island could not be blamed on the statues. A better explanation for the deforestation can be found on many different islands throughout Polynesia. Rats, coming to the island aboard ships, ate the tree’s seeds and the trees were unable to reproduce (Lynas, …show more content…
Without other written texts describing the same events or details, it is impossible to decipher how the language fully works or what each glyph means. The limited number of tablets, lack of contexts to relate them to, and the loss of the ancient language have proven to make deciphering the tablets difficult. Some experts think that Rongorongo is a proto-writing, a set of symbols used to convey information without containing words in an effort to aid in memory and not as a recording device. There is one segment of one tablet which is thought to be a celestial calendar, but even this is not entirely understood (Ager, 2015). Wilhelm de Hevesy was the first academic in 1932 to consider that there is a link between Rongorongo and the Indus Valley script from India. He claimed that as many as forty different symbols could be correlated between the two different scripts. The idea seems plausible until radiocarbon dating found that the Indus Valley civilization took place between about 3,300 and 1,900 BC. This finding proved that the two civilizations were chronologically separated by more than 2,000 years (Ancient
He then thought that a carved picture of a rabbit meant open, because a rabbit 's eyes never close. Many copies of the stone were made, all of the French soldiers were determined to translate the hieroglyphs first. One of the soldiers, Sylvestre de Sacy had a few ideas. He believed that once he singled out the names he would be able to identify the meanings of some of the letters and hopefully translate other names and words of the demotic passage.
For one the Lorax is a fictional tale rather than reality. Also, in the Lorax the Once-ler used the trees for his own economic gain rather than for a population to build resources for them to live and survive. In Easter’s End people didn’t know how to survive off resources and sustain for the future. Since the Polynesians had no wood to make tools with, they had no ways to hunt for food which led to the idea of cannibalism, that later lead to the extinction of humans on Easter Island.
Many people wonder what happened to the islanders and wonder why they disappeared. Easter Island is famous for its many large statues which were carved of stone and dragged half way across the island to be placed. But to move the stones, the people had to cut down palm trees which eventually caused the island to be stripped of its trees population and caused the animals to migrate and find other food sources. When the animals migrated it caused the islanders population to collapse due to wars and starvation which lead to cannibalism among the people. Although the island had went through an ecological disaster in the early 1600’s, the people were able to restore the stability of the island and they lived relatively well until the late 1600’s.
Discussion Questions 1. Several factors that contributed to the extinction of trees on the island included the constant chopping of trees to build canoes, to transport statues, to build to plant gardens, and to burn them for fires. The large population of rats that chewed palm nuts, also contributed to the extinction of trees. 2. If I would have arrived on the island before the tree populations were extinct, I would have advised the Easter Islanders to slow down the production of canoes, statues, houses, and gardens.
A long path of very hard stone has crossed the middle of his territory, and large, very fast moving creatures are always travelling the path, usually at speeds up to double Osceola’s top speed of 35 miles per hour. Afraid
The Aztec Empire lasted from the year 1345 to the year 1521. During these years, the Aztec Empire was able to flourish all throughout central Mexico. Their capital was established on Teotihuacan, on top of a lake. The Aztec Empire alone was 117,501 miles squared long. The citizens of the Aztec Empire were feared all over Mexico.
Deforestation is still an unbeleafable issue even to this day. With our trees being cut down to make supplies and furniture, we struggle with keeping our ratio of trees being destroyed and trees being planted equal. It seems like that was also the case in the past. There was a significant amount of trees being cut down in 1920, the land looking much more barren than it did in 1650 (Document A, map). These trees, some of them taking more than three thousand years to rise tall, are being cut down.
The Island of the Dolls (Isla de las Muñecas) The island of the dolls is located in San Lorenzo, Xochimilco, Ciudad de México. It is known for all the dolls hanging in the trees throughout the small island. Don Julian Santana Barrera, owner of the island, was responsible for hanging up the dolls. The spooky island wasn’t discovered until the 1990s according to a Daily Mail article.
(Webster et al. 2007) The dates of the last monuments and stelae found to correlate with the relevance of the drought periods the Mayan experienced in the lowlands. Furthermore, other evidence that showed that there was a collapse in the Mayan civilization was left behind artifacts such as ceramic figures and jadeite ornaments. These artifacts are small objects of value that where easy to transport in the event of a non-returnable abandonment. When Materials are left behind it is a sign of desertion of a site and suggest that the people left rather abruptly with no intention of return.(Simms, 2012)
This act has a lot of cause and effects. Removing trees leaves animals with no place
Myths about lost civilizations are recurrent in all cultures because they exert an irresistible romantic attraction on the human soul. The search unfolds first in the Amazonian jungle between Peru and Brazil and in the forests of Peruvian highlands afterwards. The expedition has attracted the attention of dangerous
Invasive species have been a massive problem in Hawaii since the 17s and 18 hundreds. At first, it wasn’t that big of a deal, but the influx of invasive species grew over time, and it became a dangerous slippery slope. Species that were once alienated poured into Hawaii and destroyed indigenous species that had been native to Hawaii for a very long time. Since then, the Hawaiian people and advocates of removing invasive plants and animals have banded together to help remove these species. There has been a great global effort to remove invasive species in all places, but the hasty spread of them has made it almost impossible to eradicate a lot of them. I think my group can majorly help with this by educating you all about the seriousness of invasive species.
New Concepts 1. The first new idea that I learned was from page 27, chapter 2 of Deculturalization. This portion of the chapter reflects on the history of when Sequoyah created a Cherokee alphabet of his own ideas. “The genius of Sequoyah’s alphabet was that because each of the 86 characters matched a particular sound in the Cherokee language, it was possible for a Cherokee to quickly become literate in Cherokee” (Deculturalization 27).
Remnants of a Forgotten Place Silence cloaks the desolate ruins atop the mountain, and an early morning fog wraps its tendrils around the worn stone, slowly thinning as the tentative sun creeps higher into the sky, leaving a path of oranges, pinks, and reds as it goes. Suddenly, the silence is broken by the heavy treading of many sneakers. A group of people emerges from the jungles surrounding the ruins, gasping in pleasure at the breathtaking sight before them: Machu Picchu. Just like so many others before them, these people have traveled quite a long distance just to have the chance of laying their eyes on this sacred site. For many, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Chinese RAFT Argument Directions: Please copy and paste your lead, body paragraphs, counterclaim, and conclusion in this document. Make sure you have your footnotes. If the Chinese desert calligraphy(Their style of writing and reading) then they will be destroying a culture. Calligraphy has been around for centuries and it is a main part of the Chinese culture and history. In 1992, an inscription was found that can be dated to the late Neolithic Longshan time period (c. 2600–2000 B.C.E), which may be when it was first invented.