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Chapter 2 - Scripts

AUSTRONESIAN_ORAL_FLORES, the Manggarai/Ngada/Lio oral tradition as a pre-script oral register (Thread 17).

Read from docs/spine/CH_02.md, line 247.

Written in canon: 1 script (this chapter). Source: registries/T0_Language_Script_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1]/Sheet1.csv.

The concept, one picked plate per subject

fragment carrier river worn shell

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the legible letterforms, the marine gastropod and the exaggerated rainbow nacre flare are all gone - a flat river-worn bivalve valve, chalky and silt-stained, one edge broken away

this chapter's own

fragment carrier weathered bone

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the wheel-thrown ceramic vessel is gone - real weathered bone with a dense cortical rim around an open trabecular honeycomb at the break, carrying faint dispersed open incisions

this chapter's own

fragment carrier worked limestone

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON O1 is the only variant whose incisions stay faint and un-closed; O2 forms a numeral-like sigil, O3 a framed cartouche and O4 legible CJK-like characters, each a fifty-chapter payoff leak.

this chapter's own

insc 77h ch02 fragment carrier

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the carved anthropomorphic hand and the closed numeral-like sigil are gone - a natural limestone fracture fragment carrying two short open strokes that never touch and never close

this chapter's own

liang bua the faint trace it leaves register plate

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis register. O1 is the only candidate whose hollows read as an ordered set of marks above the stratum line rather than as natural mine

shared across the region

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