Finding Nephite Artifacts

[poulsenll]

As part of one of my research topics, I have been looking for a list of known precolumbian settlement sites. Thanks to a kind soul on the Aztlan E-list, I was directed to a site with the data availble for most of the Maya area plotted on a GIS map of the area. To my surprize there are more than 4000 settlements plotted on the map and that is just the Maya area east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. I had expected to see less than 2000 total for all of Mesoamerica. If there is a similar density in the rest of Mesoamerica this would project to nearly 10,000 known settlement sites in Mesoamerica without even taking into account the probability of many more undiscovered sites. Of these less than 500 have been assigned an acronym for the purpose of reporting invesitation and study at the site. Most of the research effort has been located in the Maya lowlands but is now being extended into other areas. With less than 15 percent of the known sites under investigation, the probability of finding Nephite artifacts is somewhat limited, especially. considering the difficulty of identifying an artifact as Nephite and the fact that most of the research is concentrated in areas not supported by the BofM text as Nephite territory.

For those interested th map site is

http://mayagis.smv.org/

Larry P

[poulsenll]

And the search goes on and on.

A new "non Mayan site found in the Guatamalan highlands.

http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2007/agosto/08/179208.html

Hallan sitio arqueol

[Doctor Steuss]

Hallan sitio arqueol

[livy111us]

LPaulson,

Don't you know that the light is better in Classical Mayan cities? (sarcasm)

[poulsenll]

LPaulson,

Don't you know that the light is better in Classical Mayan cities?

Yes but does anybody else know that just because the light is better, we should expect to find what may have been lost in the unlighted areas of Mesoamerica?

Here is a picture showing the many settlement sites found in the Gijalva river valley. Some of them under water. You wont be able to read the text but every where you see a spot, there is a precolumbian settlement.

And here is an enlarged image of the area inside the blue box.

Larry P

[charity]

None of those can be Nephite, silly. Can't you see the names? Not a Book of Mormon or a Hebrew name among them.

[poulsenll]

None of those can be Nephite, silly. Can't you see the names? Not a Book of Mormon or a Hebrew name among them.

Sorry Charity, my hebrew, Egyptian and Nephite are not good enough to translate the Spanish and English back into the original languages. I will leave that up to the language Scholars.

Larry P