My investigation of this text in Small Santiago Tablet has by now, I think, gone far enough to make it obvious that the text covers the yearly cycle of the sun. It is a calendar for the year.

The ideas from the calendars of the week and of the month have successfully been used in trying to understand this calendar of the year. In spite of the three calendars being written on three separat tablets, it is obvious that there is a common usage of the rongorongo signs.

Therefore, it can with conficence be said that the carved signs on the rongorongo objects represent a system of writing.

Whether all of the signs in this system of writing are connected to concepts only or if some of them are used to indicate how to pronounce is, though, as yet unclear.