Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text

by Steven Roger Fischer

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.

736 pages, Hardcover

First published March 5, 1998