• DOI:10.1080/01611190802548998
Corpus ID: 34817582

Some Considerations about the Kohau Rongorongo Script in the Light of a Statistical Analysis of the ‘Santiago Staff’

@article{Melka2009SomeCA,
  title={Some Considerations about the Kohau Rongorongo Script in the Light of a Statistical Analysis of the ‘Santiago Staff’},
  author={Tomi S. Melka},
  journal={Cryptologia},
  year={2009},
  volume={33},
  pages={24 - 73}
}

Tomi S. Melka

Published 2009

Computer Science

Cryptologia

Abstract This paper deals with the distributional analysis of a recurring pattern on the Easter Island artifact known as the ‘Santiago Staff’ (‘SS’ from now on). It has been claimed that the pattern known as “XıYZ,” arguably to be found in a repetitive fashion in a “recital of pairings,” conveys a model of procreation in line with the Old Rapanui sacral chants, thus giving a clue to a possible decipherment of the SS's document. According to Steven R. Fischer, the scholar who retrieved the… CONTINUE READING

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