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A “Sacred Amulet from Easter Island—1885/6—”. Analyzing Enigmatic Glyphic Characters in the Context of the rongorongo Script
Robert M. Schoch & Tomi S. Melka
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Abstract. A newly discovered artifact known as the “Sacred Amulet from Easter Island” (“EISA”) displaying a limited number of rongorongo-like signs is brought to the attention of rongorongo (RR) scholars and other interested readers. Unfortunately, the names of the original Rapanui creator of the artifact, and its first European collector, have not come down to us; however, according to an old label attached to the object, it was collected in 1885 or 1886.
Initial probability estimates of this odd-looking piece suggest a custom-built “lunar-based calendar,” possibly designed for propitiatory and/or divination ends. Given the re-occurrence of the “full moon” glyph /152/ on this artifact—among other glyphs—, the best way to evaluate its function and its general meaning is by comparison with the apparent “Lunar Calendar” (Ca6—Ca9 [= Cr6—Cr9]) on tablet “Mamari” ( [barthel1958a]; [guy1990a]). Although there is no exact match, the partial overlap between the “Lunar Calendar” on “Mamari” and the “Sacred Amulet from Easter Island” is of interest, and requires proper documentation.
The fact that the “amulet” may post-date the year 1864—the chronological boundary marking the arrival of Christianity to Easter Island and the generally presumed “end” of the classical RR scribal tradition—does not diminish its status as a carrier of rongorongo signs. “EISA,” evidently, cannot be equated with the pre-missionary extended texts appearing on various skillfully carved RR objects; yet, it may be an item for possible inclusion in a special sub-corpus dealing with the post-missionary pieces.
As a corollary, we conclude that in the light of past and current RR research, hypotheses should not go by unquestioned and should be critically assessed within the available evidence.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-scho


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   JOURNAL = {Annales de la Propagation de la Foi---Recueil Périodique des Lettres des Evêques et des Missionnaires des Missions des Deux Mondes, et de tous les Documents Relatifs aux Missions et à l'Œuvre de la Propagation de la Foi},
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   VOLUME = {38},
   PAGES = {52--71, 124--138},
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@BOOK{facchetti2002a,
   AUTHOR = {Facchetti, Giulio M.},
   TITLE = {Antropologia della scrittura: Con un'appendice sulla questione del Rongorongo dell'Isola di Pasqua},
   PUBLISHER = {Arcipelago Edizioni},
   ADDRESS = {Milan},
   YEAR = {2002},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{fischer1993a,
   AUTHOR = {Fischer, Steven R.},
   EDITOR = {Fischer, Steven R.},
   TITLE = {A Provisional Inventory of the Inscribed Artifacts in the Three Rapanui Scripts},
   BOOKTITLE = {Easter Island Studies: Contributions to the History of Rapanui in Memory of William T.~Mulloy},
   SERIES = {Oxbow Monographs},
   PUBLISHER = {Oxbow Books},
   ADDRESS = {Oxford, UK},
   YEAR = {1993},
   VOLUME = {32},
}

@ARTICLE{fischer1994a,
   AUTHOR = {Fischer, Steven R.},
   TITLE = {Rapanui's `Great Old Words': E Timo Te Akoako},
   JOURNAL = {Journal of the Polynesian Society},
   YEAR = {1994},
   VOLUME = {103},
   NUMBER = {4},
   PAGES = {413--443},
}

@BOOK{fischer1997a,
   AUTHOR = {Fischer, Steven R.},
   TITLE = {Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script, History, Traditions, Texts},
   PUBLISHER = {Oxford University Press},
   ADDRESS = {Oxford},
   YEAR = {1997},
}

@BOOK{fischer2005a,
   AUTHOR = {Fischer, Steven R.},
   TITLE = {Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island},
   PUBLISHER = {Reaktion Books},
   ADDRESS = {London},
   YEAR = {2005},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{fischer2013a,
   AUTHOR = {Fischer, Steven R.},
   EDITOR = {Fischer, Steven R.},
   TITLE = {Sources of the Old Rapanui Language of Easter Island},
   BOOKTITLE = {Oceanic Voices---European Quills: The Early Documents on and in Chamorro and Rapanui (Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics)},
   PUBLISHER = {Academie Verlag},
   ADDRESS = {Berlin},
   YEAR = {2013},
   PAGES = {11--23},
}

@BOOK{forment1990a,
   EDITOR = {Forment, Francina and Esen-Baur, Heide-Margaret},
   TITLE = {L'Île de Pâques: Une énigme? Bruxelles: Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire},
   PUBLISHER = {Verlag Philipp von Zabern},
   ADDRESS = {Bruxelles: Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire / Frankfurt am Main},
   YEAR = {1990},
}

@BOOK{friedrich1971a,
   AUTHOR = {Friedrich, Johannes},
   TITLE = {Extinct Languages},
   PUBLISHER = {Greenwood Press, Publishers},
   ADDRESS = {Westport, Connecticut},
   YEAR = {1971},
   NOTE = {Translated from the German, Entzifferung verschollener Schrifton und Sprachen by Frank Gaynor},
}

@BOOK{gaur1987a,
   AUTHOR = {Gaur, Albertine},
   TITLE = {A History of Writing},
   EDITION = {2},
   PUBLISHER = {The British Library},
   ADDRESS = {London},
   YEAR = {1987},
}

@BOOK{gaur1994a,
   AUTHOR = {Gaur, Albertine},
   TITLE = {A History of Calligraphy},
   PUBLISHER = {River Press / Abbeville Publishing Group},
   ADDRESS = {New York},
   YEAR = {1994},
}

@BOOK{geiseler1995a,
   AUTHOR = {Geiseler, Wilhelm},
   TITLE = {Die Oster-Insel (Eine Stätte prähistorischer Kultur in der Sudsee). Geiseler's Easter Island Report: An 1880s Anthropological Account. With an Introduction, Annotations and Notes, by William S.~Ayres, translated by William S.~Ayres and Gabriella S.~Ayres},
   SERIES = {Asian and Pacific Archaeology series},
   PUBLISHER = {University of Hawai`i at Manoa},
   ADDRESS = {Honolulu},
   YEAR = {1995},
   VOLUME = {12},
}

@BOOK{gelb1963a,
   AUTHOR = {Gelb, Ignace J.},
   TITLE = {A Study of Writing},
   EDITION = {2},
   PUBLISHER = {University of Chicago Press},
   ADDRESS = {Chicago, IL},
   YEAR = {1963},
}

@ARTICLE{gelb1975a,
   AUTHOR = {Gelb, Ignace J. and Whiting, R.~M.},
   TITLE = {Methods of Decipherment},
   JOURNAL = {Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland},
   YEAR = {1975},
   VOLUME = {107},
   PAGES = {95--104},
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@BOOK{godart1982a,
   AUTHOR = {Godart, Louis and Olivier, Jean-Pierre},
   TITLE = {Recueil des Inscriptions en Linéaire A},
   PUBLISHER = {P.~Geuthner depositaire},
   ADDRESS = {Paris},
   YEAR = {1982},
   VOLUME = {4},
}

@ARTICLE{golson1965a,
   AUTHOR = {Golson, J.},
   TITLE = {Thor Heyerdahl and the Prehistory of Easter Island},
   JOURNAL = {Oceania},
   YEAR = {1965},
   VOLUME = {36},
   NUMBER = {1},
   PAGES = {38--83},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{gossen1974a,
   AUTHOR = {Gossen, Gary H.},
   EDITOR = {Hammond, Norman},
   TITLE = {A Chamula Solar Calendar Board from Chiapas, Mexico},
   BOOKTITLE = {Mesoamerican Archaeology: New Approaches},
   PUBLISHER = {University of Texas Press},
   ADDRESS = {Austin},
   YEAR = {1974},
   PAGES = {217--253},
}

@ARTICLE{grad1976a,
   AUTHOR = {Gradín, Carlos J. and Aschero, Carlos A. and Aguerre, Ana M.},
   TITLE = {Investigaciones Arqueológicas en la Cueva de las Manos Estancia Alto Río Pinturas (Provincia de Santa Cruz)},
   JOURNAL = {Relaciones de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología (Buenos Aires)},
   YEAR = {1976},
   VOLUME = {10},
   PAGES = {201--250},
}

@BOOK{gruenbaum1987a,
   AUTHOR = {Grünbaum, Branko and Shepherd, Geoffrey C.},
   TITLE = {Tilings \& Patterns},
   EDITION = {2},
   PUBLISHER = {W.~H. Freeman \& Company},
   ADDRESS = {New York},
   YEAR = {1987},
}

@ARTICLE{gusinde1922a,
   AUTHOR = {Gusinde, Martin},
   TITLE = {Bibliografía de la Isla de Pascua, Continuación},
   JOURNAL = {Publicaciones del Museo de Etnología y Antropología de Chile},
   YEAR = {1922},
   VOLUME = {2},
   NUMBER = {3},
   PAGES = {261--383},
}

@ARTICLE{guy1985a,
   AUTHOR = {Guy, Jacques B.M.},
   TITLE = {On a Fragment of the `Tahua' Tablet},
   JOURNAL = {Journal of the Polynesian Society},
   YEAR = {1985},
   VOLUME = {94},
   PAGES = {367--387},
}

@ARTICLE{guy1990a,
   AUTHOR = {Guy, Jacques B.M.},
   TITLE = {The Lunar Calendar of Tablet `Mamari'},
   JOURNAL = {Journal de la Société des Océanistes},
   YEAR = {1990},
   VOLUME = {91},
   PAGES = {135--149},
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@ARTICLE{guy1999a,
   AUTHOR = {Guy, Jacques B.M.},
   TITLE = {Peut-on se fonder sur le témoignage de Metoro pour déchiffrer les mph{Rongo-Rongo}?},
   JOURNAL = {Journal de la Société des Océanistes},
   YEAR = {1999},
   VOLUME = {108},
   NUMBER = {1},
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@ARTICLE{guy2006a,
   AUTHOR = {Guy, Jacques B.M.},
   TITLE = {General Properties of the mph{Rongorongo} Writing},
   JOURNAL = {Rapa Nui Journal},
   YEAR = {2006},
   VOLUME = {20},
   NUMBER = {1},
   PAGES = {53--66},
}

@ARTICLE{harris2011a,
   AUTHOR = {Harris, Martyn and Melka, Tomi S.},
   TITLE = {The mph{Rongorongo} Script: On a Listed Sequence in the mph{recto} [mph{verso}, repaired] of Tablet `Mamari'},
   JOURNAL = {Journal of Quantitative Linguistics},
   YEAR = {2011},
   VOLUME = {18},
   NUMBER = {2},
   PAGES = {122--173},
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@ARTICLE{harris2011b,
   AUTHOR = {Harris, Martyn and Melka, Tomi S.},
   TITLE = {The mph{Rongorongo} Script: On a Listed Sequence in the mph{recto} [mph{verso}, repaired] of Tablet `Mamari' (Part II)},
   JOURNAL = {Journal of Quantitative Linguistics},
   YEAR = {2011},
   VOLUME = {18},
   NUMBER = {3},
   PAGES = {234--272},
}

@BOOK{harris1986a,
   AUTHOR = {Harris, Roy},
   TITLE = {The Origin of Writing},
   PUBLISHER = {University of Oxford},
   ADDRESS = {Duckworth},
   YEAR = {1986},
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@BOOK{harris2001a,
   AUTHOR = {Harris, Roy},
   TITLE = {Rethinking Writing},
   PUBLISHER = {Continuum},
   ADDRESS = {London},
   YEAR = {2001},
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@INPROCEEDINGS{heyerdahl1965a,
   AUTHOR = {Heyerdahl, Thor},
   EDITOR = {Heyerdahl, T. and Ferdon, Jr., Edwin N.},
   TITLE = {The Concept of RONGO-RONGO among the Historic Population of Easter Island. Report 16},
   BOOKTITLE = {Miscellaneous Papers: Reports of the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island and East Pacific},
   SERIES = {Monographs of the School of American Research and the Kon-Tiki Museum},
   PUBLISHER = {Forum Publishing House},
   ADDRESS = {Stockholm},
   YEAR = {1965},
   VOLUME = {24},
   PAGES = {345--385},
}

@BOOK{heyerdahl-a,
   AUTHOR = {Heyerdahl, Thor},
   TITLE = {The Art of Easter Island. Garden City},
   PUBLISHER = {Doubleday \& Company, Inc},
   ADDRESS = {New York},
   YEAR = {1975},
}

@BOOK{heyerdahl1961,
   EDITOR = {Heyerdahl, Thor and Ferdon, Jr., Edwin N.},
   TITLE = {Archaeology of Easter Island: Reports of the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island and East Pacific},
   SERIES = {Monographs of the School of American Research and the Museum of New Mexico},
   PUBLISHER = {Forum Publishing House},
   ADDRESS = {Stockholm},
   YEAR = {1961},
}

@BOOK{hiroa1938a,
   AUTHOR = {Hiroa, Rangi},
   TITLE = {Ethnology of Mangareva},
   SERIES = {Bishop Museum Bulletin},
   PUBLISHER = {Bishop Museum Press},
   ADDRESS = {Honolulu},
   YEAR = {1938},
   VOLUME = {157},
}

@BOOK{hooper2006a,
   AUTHOR = {Hooper, Steven},
   TITLE = {Pacific Encounters: Art \& Divinity in Polynesia 1760--1860. (Published to accompany the exhibition Pacific Encounters: Art \& Divinity in Polynesia 1760--1860, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 21 May--13 August 2006)},
   PUBLISHER = {The British Museum Press},
   ADDRESS = {London},
   YEAR = {2006},
}

@ARTICLE{horley2007a,
   AUTHOR = {Horley, Paul},
   TITLE = {Structural Analysis of mph{Rongorongo} Inscriptions},
   JOURNAL = {Rapa Nui Journal},
   YEAR = {2007},
   VOLUME = {21},
   NUMBER = {1},
   PAGES = {25--32},
}

@ARTICLE{horley2010a,
   AUTHOR = {Horley, Paul},
   TITLE = {mph{Rongorongo} Tablet Keiti},
   JOURNAL = {Rapa Nui Journal},
   YEAR = {2010},
   VOLUME = {24},
   NUMBER = {1},
   PAGES = {45--56},
}

@ARTICLE{horley2011a,
   AUTHOR = {Horley, Paul},
   TITLE = {Lunar Calendar in mph{Rongorongo} Texts and Rock Art of Easter Island},
   JOURNAL = {Journal de la Société des Océanistes},
   YEAR = {2011},
   VOLUME = {132},
   PAGES = {17--38},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{horley2018a,
   AUTHOR = {Horley, Paul and Davletshin, Albert and Wieczorek, Rafał M.},
   EDITOR = {Zuzanna Jakubowska-Vorbrich},
   TITLE = {How Many Scripts were there on Easter Island?},
   BOOKTITLE = {The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: Misconceptions about Easter Island in the Light of 21st Century Science},
   PUBLISHER = {Museum of the History of the Polish Popular Movement and Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies, University of Warsaw},
   ADDRESS = {Warsaw},
   YEAR = {2018},
   PAGES = {323--468},
}

@ARTICLE{horley2012a,
   AUTHOR = {Horley, Paul and Lee, Georgia},
   TITLE = {Easter Island's Birdman Stones in the Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology},
   JOURNAL = {Rapa Nui Journal},
   YEAR = {2012},
   VOLUME = {26},
   NUMBER = {1},
   PAGES = {5--20},
}

@ARTICLE{hough1889a,
   AUTHOR = {Hough, Walter},
   TITLE = {Notes on the Archeology and Ethnology of Easter Island},
   JOURNAL = {The American Naturalist},
   YEAR = {1889},
   VOLUME = {23},
   NUMBER = {10},
   PAGES = {877--888},
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@ARTICLE{houston2004b,
   AUTHOR = {Houston, Stephen D.},
   TITLE = {The Archaeology of Communication Technologies},
   JOURNAL = {Annual Review of Anthropology},
   YEAR = {2004},
   VOLUME = {33},
   PAGES = {223--250},
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@INPROCEEDINGS{houston2004a,
   AUTHOR = {Houston, Stephen D.},
   EDITOR = {Houston, Stephen D.},
   TITLE = {Writing in Early Mesoamerica},
   BOOKTITLE = {The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process},
   PUBLISHER = {Cambridge University Press},
   ADDRESS = {Cambridge, UK},
   YEAR = {2004},
   PAGES = {274--309},
}

@BOOK{hunston2002a,
   AUTHOR = {Hunston, Susanne},
   TITLE = {Corpora in Applied Linguistics},
   PUBLISHER = {Cambridge University Press},
   ADDRESS = {Cambridge, UK},
   YEAR = {2002},
}

@ARTICLE{hyman2006a,
   AUTHOR = {Hyman, Malcolm D.},
   TITLE = {Of Glyphs and Glottography},
   JOURNAL = {Language \& Communication},
   YEAR = {2006},
   VOLUME = {26},
   NUMBER = {3--4},
   PAGES = {231--249},
}

@ARTICLE{imbelloni1951a,
   AUTHOR = {Imbelloni, José},
   TITLE = {Las `Tabletas Parlantes' de Pascua, Monumentos de un Sistema Gráfico Indo-oceánico [The `Talking Tablets' of Easter Island, Monuments of an Indo-Oceanic Graphic System]},
   JOURNAL = {Runa, Archivo para las Ciencias del Hombre (Buenos Aires)},
   YEAR = {1951},
   VOLUME = {4},
   NUMBER = {1--2},
   PAGES = {89--177},
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@BOOK{jannot2005a,
   AUTHOR = {Jannot, Jean-René},
   TRANSLATOR = {Whitehead, Dane K.},
   TITLE = {Religion in Ancient Etruria},
   SERIES = {Wisconsin Studies in Classics},
   PUBLISHER = {University of Wisconsin Press},
   ADDRESS = {Madison, Wisconsin},
   YEAR = {2005},
}

@BOOK{jaussen1893a,
   AUTHOR = {Jaussen, Florentine É.},
   EDITOR = {Alazard, Rev. P.~Ildefonse},
   TITLE = {L'Île de Pâques. Historique, écriture et répertoire des signes des tablettes ou bois d'hibiscus intelligents},
   PUBLISHER = {Ernest Leraux},
   ADDRESS = {Paris},
   YEAR = {1893},
}

@BOOK{jones1856a,
   AUTHOR = {Jones, Owen},
   TITLE = {The Grammar of Ornament: Illustrated by Examples from Various Styles of Ornament},
   PUBLISHER = {Day and Son},
   ADDRESS = {London},
   YEAR = {1856},
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@BOOK{jurafsky2018a,
   AUTHOR = {Jurafsky, Daniel and Martin, James H.},
   TITLE = {Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition},
   EDITION = {3},
   YEAR = {2018},
   URL = {https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ed3 book.pdf},
}

@ARTICLE{kaeppler2003a,
   AUTHOR = {Kaeppler, Adrienne L.},
   TITLE = {Sculptures of Barkcloth and Wood from Rapa Nui: Symbolic Continuities and Polynesian Affinities},
   JOURNAL = {RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics},
   YEAR = {2003},
   VOLUME = {44},
   PAGES = {10--69},
}

@BOOK{kjellgren,
   EDITOR = {Kjellgren, Erik},
   TITLE = {Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island},
   PUBLISHER = {The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press},
   ADDRESS = {New York/New Haven-London},
   YEAR = {2001},
   NOTE = {With contributions by J. A. Van Tilburg and A. L. Kaeppler},
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@ARTICLE{knoche1914a,
   AUTHOR = {Knoche, Walter},
   TITLE = {Cráneos Marcados de la Isla de Pascua [Incised crania from Easter Island]},
   JOURNAL = {Revista Chilena de Historia y Geografía (Santiago)},
   YEAR = {1914},
   VOLUME = {12},
   NUMBER = {16},
   PAGES = {344--346},
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@ARTICLE{koehler2007a,
   AUTHOR = {Köhler, Reinhard and Rapp, Reinhard},
   TITLE = {A Psycholinguistic Application of Synergetic Linguistics.},
   JOURNAL = {Glottometrics},
   YEAR = {2007},
   VOLUME = {15},
   PAGES = {62--70},
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@INPROCEEDINGS{kotansky2019a,
   AUTHOR = {Kotansky, Roy D.},
   EDITOR = {Frankfurter, David},
   TITLE = {Textual Amulets and Writing Traditions in the Ancient World},
   BOOKTITLE = {Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic},
   PUBLISHER = {Koninklijke Brill NV},
   ADDRESS = {Leiden / Boston},
   YEAR = {2019},
   PAGES = {507--554},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{kraemer2003a,
   AUTHOR = {Krämer, Sybille},
   EDITOR = {Krämer, Sybille and Bredekamp, H.},
   TITLE = {`Schriftbildlichkeit' oder: Über eine (fast) vergessene Dimension der Schrift},
   BOOKTITLE = {Bild, Schrift, Zahl},
   PUBLISHER = {Wilhelm Fink},
   ADDRESS = {München},
   YEAR = {2003},
   PAGES = {157--176},
}

@BOOK{krippendorff2004a,
   AUTHOR = {Krippendorff, Klaus},
   TITLE = {Content Analysis: An Introduction to its Methodology},
   EDITION = {2},
   PUBLISHER = {Sage Publications},
   ADDRESS = {Thousand Oaks, California},
   YEAR = {2004},
}

@ARTICLE{krupa1971a,
   AUTHOR = {Krupa, Viktor},
   TITLE = {`Moon' in the writing of Easter Island},
   JOURNAL = {Oceanic Linguistics},
   YEAR = {1971},
   VOLUME = {10},
   NUMBER = {1},
   PAGES = {1--10},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{kudrjavtsev1949a,
   AUTHOR = {Kudrjavtsev, Boris G.},
   AUTHOR_ORIGINAL = {Кудрявцев, Борис Г.},
   TITLE = {Письменность острова Пасхи [Scripts of Easter Island]},
   BOOKTITLE = {Сборник музея антропологии и этнографии [Collection of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography]},
   YEAR = {1949},
   VOLUME = {11},
   PAGES = {175--221},
}

@ARTICLE{ny2004a,
   AUTHOR = {Le Ny, Jean-François and Cordier, Françoise},
   TITLE = {Contribution of Word Meaning and Components of Familiarity to Lexical Decision: A Study with Pseudowords Constructed from Words with Known or Unknown Meaning},
   JOURNAL = {Current Psychology Letters},
   YEAR = {2004},
   VOLUME = {12},
   NUMBER = {1},
   PAGES = {1--10},
}

@ARTICLE{lee1999a,
   AUTHOR = {Lee, Georgia},
   TITLE = {The Nutcase Chronicles},
   JOURNAL = {South American Explorer Magazine},
   YEAR = {1999},
   VOLUME = {55},
   PAGES = {14--20},
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@ARTICLE{lehmann1907a,
   AUTHOR = {Lehmann, Walter},
   TRANSLATOR = {{R. P. Théophané Calmes (des Sacrés Cœurs de Picpus)}},
   TITLE = {Essai d'une monographie bibliographique sur l'île de Pâques},
   JOURNAL = {Anthropos},
   YEAR = {1907},
   VOLUME = {2},
   PAGES = {141--151, 257--268},
}

@BOOK{leli2010a,
   AUTHOR = {Lelièvre, F. and Pothier, L. and Conciatori, C. and Poussart, A. and Major, E.},
   TITLE = {Easter Island: An Epic Voyage},
   PUBLISHER = {Pointe-à-Callière},
   ADDRESS = {Montréal},
   YEAR = {2010},
}

@BOOK{lewis1972a,
   AUTHOR = {Lewis, David},
   TITLE = {We, the Navigators---Ancient Art of Landfinding},
   PUBLISHER = {University of Hawai`i Press},
   ADDRESS = {Honolulu},
   YEAR = {1972},
   NOTE = {Foreword by S.~H. Riesenberg},
}

@BOOK{liller1993a,
   AUTHOR = {Liller, William},
   TITLE = {The Ancient Solar Observatories of Rapanui: The Archaeoastronomy of Easter Island (The Easter Island Series)},
   PUBLISHER = {Easter Island Foundation / Cloud Mountain Press},
   ADDRESS = {Woodland, California},
   YEAR = {1993},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{macri1996a,
   AUTHOR = {Macri, Martha J.},
   EDITOR = {Daniels, Peter T. and Bright, William},
   TITLE = {mph{RongoRongo} of Easter Island},
   BOOKTITLE = {The World's Writing Systems},
   PUBLISHER = {Oxford University Press},
   ADDRESS = {Oxford, NY},
   YEAR = {1996},
   PAGES = {183--188},
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@BOOK{magli2009a,
   AUTHOR = {Magli, Giulio},
   TITLE = {Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island},
   PUBLISHER = {Copernicus Books / Springer Science + Business Media: in association with Praxis Pub},
   ADDRESS = {New York},
   YEAR = {2009},
}

@BOOK{maiani1996a,
   EDITOR = {Maiani, Margherita and Quer, Soizic},
   TRANSLATOR = {Visigalli, Egle Barone and Puaux, Olivier},
   TITLE = {Voyage vers l'île mystérieuse. De la Polynésie à l'île de Pâques, 20 Avril–15 Septembre 1996. Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, Mairie de Bordeaux},
   PUBLISHER = {Amilcare Pizzi Editore},
   ADDRESS = {Milan},
   YEAR = {1996},
}

@BOOK{massarelli2014a,
   AUTHOR = {Massarelli, Ricardo},
   TITLE = {I Testi Etruschi su Piombo [The Etruscan Texts (appearing) on Lead]},
   SERIES = {Biblioteca di Studi Etruschi},
   PUBLISHER = {Fabrizio Serra editore},
   ADDRESS = {Pisa / Roma},
   YEAR = {2014},
   VOLUME = {53},
}

@BOOK{maziere1968,
   AUTHOR = {Mazière, Francis},
   TRANSLATOR = {Wm. Collins Sons},
   TITLE = {Mysteries of Easter Island},
   PUBLISHER = {W.~W. Norton, Company, Inc. With photographs by the author. Originally published as mph{Fantastique île de Pâques: Des yeux regardent les étoiles...}, Robert Laffont, 1965},
   ADDRESS = {New York},
   YEAR = {1968},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{mccall2010a,
   AUTHOR = {McCall, Grant},
   EDITOR = {Job, Sebastian and Connor, Linda},
   TITLE = {The End of the World at the End of the Earth: Retrospective Eschatology on Rapanui (Easter Island)},
   BOOKTITLE = {Online Proceedings of the Symposium “Anthropology and the Ends of Worlds”},
   SERIES = {Sydney Anthropology Symposium Series},
   PUBLISHER = {University of Sydney},
   ADDRESS = {Sydney},
   YEAR = {2010},
   VOLUME = {1},
   PAGES = {45--53},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{mccoy1979a,
   AUTHOR = {McCoy, Patrick},
   EDITOR = {Jennings, Jesse D.},
   TITLE = {Easter Island},
   BOOKTITLE = {The Prehistory of Polynesia},
   PUBLISHER = {Harvard University Press},
   ADDRESS = {Cambridge, MA / London, England},
   YEAR = {1979},
   PAGES = {135--147},
}

@BOOK{mcenery2001a,
   AUTHOR = {McEnery, Tony and Wilson, Anthony},
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   YEAR = {2020},
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Robert M. Schoch & Tomi S. Melka (2020), “A “Sacred Amulet from Easter Island—1885/6—”. Analyzing Enigmatic Glyphic Characters in the Context of the rongorongo Script,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 5, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 847–903.


@INPROCEEDINGS{gla5-scho,
   AUTHOR = {Robert M. Schoch and Tomi S. Melka},
   EDITOR = {Haralambous, Yannis},
   TITLE = {{A~“Sacred Amulet from Easter Island---1885/6---”. Analyzing Enigmatic Glyphic Characters in the Context of the \‍emph{rongorongo} Script}},
   BOOKTITLE = {{Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020}},
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   VOLUME = {5},
   PUBLISHER = {Fluxus Editions},
   ADDRESS = {Brest},
   YEAR = {2020},
   PAGES = {847--903},
   DOI = {https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-scho},
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