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Easter Island's Secret
Newly radiocarbon-dated wooden tablets from Easter Island may show a fully independent, organically developed writing system — something achieved by only a handful of cultures throughout history. We dig into the dating controversy (you can date the wood, not the inscription itself), debunk the old "ecological collapse" myth about the Rapanui people, and marvel at surprising DNA evidence that suggests the incredible.
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