Easter Island - Indus Valley Scripts:

2). The two cultures are separated by at least 2,000 years.

Response: There are several examples of cultures with 'sacred' scripts which were continued for well over a thousand years with important texts being transferred meticulously, and without deviation for millennia, mirroring the ancient 'oral tradition' of our pre-historic ancestors. The fact that we still use the Greek alphabet over two thousands years after the collapse of their civilisation is testimony to the endurance of script, and therefore proof of possibility. The Easter Island population when it was discovered had been settled from at least 900 AD, revealing at least a thousand years of continued settlement. The islanders mythology states that the original writing was brought by the first settlers who had it written on 'sticks', not on the planks that were found when Europeans arrived, and the accounts by early Europeans suggest that when they were first discovered, the general population of Easter Islanders had little knowledge of how to 'read' the script, using them more as a ritual mnemonic rather than an alphabetic script.

The recent recognition of Indus Valley script in an artefact from the Sultani Museum in Kabul has demonstrated that the Indus script was still in use (est.), 1,000 years ago. At present the parchment or the box it is in have yet to be radiocarbon dated, but regardless of the exact date of the object, it is not believed to be a direct product of the Indus Valley culture, but rather a more recent text that made use of the Indus Valley Script, perhaps using a different alphabet. This artefact both proves that I.V.S continued to be used (repeated) long after the official collapse of their civilisation (c. 1,900 BC), and therefore demonstrates the possibility that the basic elements of Indus Script could have been carried to Easter Island by the first immigrants, transforming over time into the more rounded Rongorongo discovered in the 18th century.