Home Page

It is understandable that modern day Anthropologists and Archeologists do not accept findings located outside their own field of discovery.  Millions have been made with forgeries and scams.  Yet, 90% of archaeological finds are reported by Amatures and have to be labeled “controversial” since  they were discovered outside a permit or project.  Still, new archaeological  documents and new findings continue to emerge supporting the presence of early Eastern Northern Americans at the time of The Book of Mormon.

In early 1800’s no one was in a position to record all of the information by modern day standards.  Major John Wesley Powell in 1869 was one of  the first archaeologists of our time.  So, looking back further, after Joseph  Smith Jr. published the Book of Mormon (1830), the men and women of his day had no problem with the description of the fortifications, artifacts found,  large skeletal remains, numerous cities and battle mounds as found within itspages, because as these pioneer settlers crossed the Appalachian Mountains into the Valley of Ohio, they saw these structures and discovered these artifacts in great abundance with earthen structures still standing.  Early frontier families, had no problem believing Joseph when he talked about early inhabitants of the places they just journeyed and settled upon.

Since that time schools and universities have long taught the established doctrine of Isolationism, or to say, that the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere developed culturally independent of each other with no cross ocean contact either Atlantic or Pacific.  Or, that North American Indians came from Eskimos migrating from Asia to South America. However, as new evidence of a much bigger picture emerged, sometimes labeled “controversial” by modern day archaeologist, we learned that people from the Eastern Hemisphere set sail and visited Eastern North America long  
before Columbus in 1492.

In the Americas, we find numerous archaeological enigmas that are not supposed to be here.  These enigmas have been coined “OOPARTS”, (out of place artifacts).  They do not fit the evidence as has been laid out by archaeologist, that is, before Columbus, no contact between East and West.  Nevertheless, these European and Mediterranean
artifacts keep showing up from coast to coast in the Americas.  When an artifact of this nature is discovered Diffusionists believe an event actually took place in the location without the regiment of a scrupulous dig. However, it is immediately looked upon as a planted hoax or a fake someone has placed in the path of the archaeologist or anthropologist. Most Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by definition are Diffusionists.  Having accepted Lehi's travels by understanding by study that they are walk able and sailable etc…, you become a member of the Diffusion camp.

North America has produced numerous artifacts with and without Mediterranean scripts.  Way more than our neighbors to the south, namely, Central and South America.  For instance: the Ten Commandment Stone from Newark, Ohio;  the Bat Creek Stone from Tennessee; Los Lunas Ten Commandment stone, in New Mexico, mediterranean oil lamps from West Virginia, Kentucky and Wisconsin;  10,000 Michigan Tablets depicting Old Testament stories; Cuneiform writing among Native Americans signifying Hebrew, Yod Hey Vau;  the numerous and mysterious Mound Builder cities and forts covering Missouri to New York east to west and Wisconsin to Tennessee north to south, etc....

The thousands of Mound Builders (300 BC to 400 AD) have left us with the biggest mystery.  Who were they? Why were they here? Where did they go?

The Book of Mormon history of the Nephite nation runs a great parallel with this North American Hopewell culture.  Its timeline, mode of building with wood and earth, and copper mining are practically identical.  Both groups had a high degree of sophistication displaying quality artifacts, both groups were agrarian by choice, both groups fought a defensive war with their neighbors, both groups occupied the same geographical location, and both groups cease to
exist on or around 400 AD.

What this all comes down to is this; the artifacts found in North America that support the Book of Mormon need to be carefully studied.  The evidence for the Nephites, being present in North America, far out way the evidence that can be produced for Central or South America.

The best living source we have is the oral history and traditions of the North American Indians themselves.  It has been greatly documented by our early historians and antiquarians of the late 1700’s and all through the 1800’s, that other people have visited and come to stay within the lands of this United States.  The Native Americans have left us testimony of their fortifications, their cities, their wars in days past.  The majority of these visits came
from the EAST, an Atlantic crossing, not the Pacific.  That the Indians still remember when the “yellow” skins arrived from the Bering Strait and that they are late comers.  The Algonquin stock of the Midwest, which is the majority of all Natives who formally had their ancestral lands in the eastern U.S., all tell of their ancestors coming from the  land of the “rising sun”.  That they settled the Great Lakes first and then expanded into the heartland of America. They talk about the "war of extinction", and about their ancient cities that once thrived long before England's London Town?, and they talk about the arrival of East Star Man, who healed the sick, raised the dead, taught new laws and gave them their priesthood.  This is Eastern North America.  Read more about these people.