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- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode" (view source)
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" (view source)
- Grayson: "extinct North American mammals...losses began in Mexico and Alaska during the Pleistocene and ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago" (view source)
- Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C." (view source)
- Head: "The indigenous American bee is the melipona (a stingless bee). It produces only about one kilogram of honey per year" (view source)
- Johnson: "Probably it is safe to say that American Proboscidea have been extinct for a minimum of 3000 years" (view source)
- Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: "Pottery and other cultural materials were found in levels VII and above. But in some of those artifact-bearing strata there were horse bones, even in level II" (view source)
- Madden et al.: "by the beginning of the tenth century B.C. blacksmiths were intentionally steeling iron" (view source)
- Martin: "no theoretical reason why a herd of mastodons, horses, or ground sloths could not have survived in some small refuge until 8000 or even 4000 years ago" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "Bones of domesticated cattle...have been reported from different caves in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence for the survival of the elephant can be found in Native American myths and traditions" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence of goats associated with pre-Columbian man also comes from caves in Yucatan" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "This was long enough to bring them (mammoths) to the time of the Jaredites" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "there are sheep native to America. The most common type is the Mountain Sheep, Ovis canadensis" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "two distinct species of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times" (view source)
- Padilla et al.: "The maya codex Tro-Cortesianus shows drawings of bees and parts of honey combs" (view source)
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle" (view source)
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (view source)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon refer to "coins"? (view source)
- Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (view source)
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- Question: What is the origin of the modern horse in the New World? (view source)
- Question: What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What was known about steel in ancient America? (view source)
- Question: Why are horses considered an anachronism in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (view source)
- Question:Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (view source)
- Question:Did the Jaredites bring swarms of bees across the ocean in their barges (view source)
- Question:Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (view source)
- Question:What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question:Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (view source)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (view source)
- Roper: "archaeologists have discovered a carburized iron sword near Jericho" (view source)
- Sorenson: "By 1400 BC, smiths in Armenia had discovered how to carburize iron by prolonged heating in contact with carbon" (view source)
- Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them 'wild cows'" (view source)
- Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them" (view source)
- Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization" (view source)
- Verses in the Book of Mormon that talk about "horses" (view source)
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