She lit off Her Camel and found bones

[Rajah Manchou]

5 hours ago, strappinglad said:

Where did I read that finding horse bones on the Mongolian plains was now quite rare even though Mongolian horse culture was wide spread ? Probably wishful dissonance ! 

It comes from Horses in the Book of Mormon

"In the Bible we read that Abraham had camels while in Egypt, yet archaeologists used to believe that this was an anachronism because camels were supposedly unknown in Egypt until Greek and Roman times. More recently, however, some researchers have shown that camels were used in Egypt from pre-historic times until the present day. In the 4th & 5th centuries AD, the Huns of Central Asia and Eastern Europe had so many horses that estimates suggest that each warrior may have had up to ten horses. Horses were the basis of their wealth and military power. According to a non-LDS leading authority on the zoological record for central Asia, however, we know very little of the Huns’ horses, and not a single usable horse bone has been found in the territory of the whole empire of the Huns. Based on the fact that other–once thriving–animals have disappeared (often with very little trace), it is not unreasonable to suggest that the same thing might have happened with the Nephite “horse.”

The problem is that we have plenty of evidence of horses in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. The claim that not a single usable horse bone has been found in the territory of the whole empire of the Huns isn't accurate.

There are horses bones and burials and etchings and horse saddles and stirrups. There are accounts of horses in the writings of those times and there are ornaments made from braided horse hair and evidence of horses all over the place. 

For example, the image to the left is a mass horse burial for Duke Jing of Qi (reigned 547–490 BCE) 

[CV75]

13 hours ago, Metis_LDS said:

I just learned a new word.

How about "lid"? Hint: not the archaic of "lit"...

Edited November 10, 2019 by CV75