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- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode" (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (view source)
- Question: In what context are elephants mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- 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: 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: Why is the "Ass" (Donkey) mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question:Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (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)
- 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)
- Source:Bernardino de Sahagun:The War of Conquest: How It Was Waged Here in Mexico:Aztecs viewed Spanish horses as deer (view source)
- Source:BoM verses:Horses (view source)
- Source:Grayson:Deciphering North American Pleistocene Extinctions:5:losses...ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago (view source)
- Source:JBMS:10:1:Out of the Dust:Horse bones in Yucatan (view source)
- Source:Johnson:Men and Elephants in America:1952:Probably it is safe to say that American Proboscidea have been extinct for a minimum of 3000 years (view source)
- Source:Martin:The Discovery of America:Science 179:974:No theoretical reason mastodons, horses and slots could not have survived (view source)
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Cattle and horses (view source)
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Elephants:Survival until the time of the Jaredites (view source)
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Elephants:Traditions of giant beasts with long noses (view source)
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Goats (view source)
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Sheep (view source)
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Swine (view source)
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Wild goats (view source)
- Source:Pietro Martire d'Anghiera:Herds of deer (view source)
- Source:Reexploring the Book of Mormon:Ch:26:1:Excavations at the Post-Classic site of Mayapan in Yucatan in 1957 (view source)
- Source:Sorensen:Ancient American Setting:294:Cattle (view source)
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:290:Swine (view source)
- Source:Wikipedia:Bighorn sheep:Native to North America (view source)
- Source:Wikipedia:Mammoth:Mammoths are members of the family Elephantidae (view source)
- Verses in the Book of Mormon that talk about "horses" (view source)
- Wikipedia: Bighorn sheep "crossed to North America over the Bering land bridge" (view source)
- Wikipedia: Mammoths "were members of the family Elephantidae" (view source)
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