New Light on American Archaeology

Title

New Light on American Archaeology

Publication Type

Book

Year of Publication

1924

Authors

Number of Pages

198

Publisher

Lambert Moon Printing Company

City

Independence, MO

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Abstract

"In my research for facts in ancient American history, I found it necessary to weigh carefully the theories and speculations of writers who could furnish no good evidence as to where the ancient Americans came from, or when and how they reached the American Continent.

I decided to do my research work from the raw material as much as possible, or to try to gather facts from the translations of ancient records and traditions that were handed down by the natives for many centuries; using the ruins of cities, temples, pyramids, and fortifications as corroborative evidence, especially in establishing geographical locations.

I soon discovered the ancient records and traditions gave little or no chronology, thus leaving the student with little or no knowledge of the centuries in which occurred the historical events described. This, no doubt, was the cause of many scholars rejecting the fragments of native history as of no value, and to their classifying them as myths.

The great historian, H. H. Bancroft, says, “The traditional history of the ancient Americans would assume importance if the events narrated could be otherwise ascertained.” In other words, if other records or writings should be discovered restating the same historical events, and supplying the needed chronology, the records and traditions would at once assume great importance."

Quetzalcoatl
Three Nephites
Migration
Archaeology
Waters of Mormon
River Sidon
Abridgment
Isthmus
Popol Vuh
Tower of Sherrizah
Zarahemla (Land of)
Nephi (Land of)
Usumacinta River
Calendar System
Narrow Neck of Land
Natural Disasters
Christ in America
Native Americans - Maya
Book of Mormon Geography – Mesoamerica
Works of Ixtlilxochitl
Jesus Christ, Postmortal Appearances of
Book of Mormon Geography - Limited Geography Theory
Hill Cumorah (New York)
Ancient America – Mesoamerica
Hill Cumorah (Battleground)
Great White God
Jershon (Land of)
New World
Bountiful (City of)
Desolation (City of)
Kukulkan
Native Americans – K'iche
Native Americans – Nahua

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