Les bases du déchiffrement de l'écriture de l'île de Pâques

Konstantin Pozdniakov (1)

1 LLACAN - Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire

1) In this paper I demonstrated that there is a number (more than 50) of long fragments that are repeated in different texts in different order. Thus, each text represents a « storage » of mini-texts and also contains some unique segments that cannot be found in other texts. 2) I demonstrated that in France there is an authentic artefact Rongorongo. This is a famous snuff box that was considered a falsification. I managed to discover that by putting together the front and the back part of it we can retrieve the unknown line. This means that during production of the snuff box the original tablet with writiings was cut up in pieces. The combination of signs, engraved there, is also typical for some other texts. This fact is of particular importance for the ascertaining of its authenticity. 3) I demonstrated that a large number of signs in the currently accepted catalog of Barthel are ligatures, that is combinations of signs. 4) By detecting parallel fragments, I defined the direction of writing for some of the texts. 5) I demonstrated that in case of vertical ligatures, first we must read the lower sign and then the upper sign

Mots clés: rongorongo; déchiffrement; île de Pâques; Easter Island

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Konstantin Pozdniakov. Les bases du déchiffrement de l'écriture de l'île de Pâques. Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 1996, 103, pp.289-303. ⟨hal-01389632⟩