> Although James Cook and Jean-Francois de Galaup both made a careful study of the inhabitants and their homes, their accounts said nothing about any written te

> Although James Cook and Jean-Francois de Galaup both made a careful study of the inhabitants and their homes, their accounts said nothing about any written texts. It was not until December 1864 that anyone seems to have noticed it; and by then, it seemed to be everywhere. Do they consider that it's possibly (keith haring style) art that caught on and was widely imitated after the Rapa Nui people saw the Europeans' written languages? Might linguists be accidentally trying to decipher what's possibly not written language at all?