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- Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C." (view source)
- John Welch (1999): "This sidelight in the book of Alma contains enough facts to support meaningful parallels between King Mosiah's weights and measures and those used in other ancient cultures" (view source)
- Madden et al.: "by the beginning of the tenth century B.C. blacksmiths were intentionally steeling iron" (view source)
- Peterson and Roper: "We know of no one who cites Ferguson as an authority, except countercultists" (view source)
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon refer to "coins"? (view source)
- Question: How were metals used in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Is the armor described in the Book of Mormon consistent with armor used in ancient Mesoamerica? (view source)
- Question: Is the mention of copper in the Book of Mormon an anachronism? (view source)
- Question: Was Thomas Stuart Ferguson an archaeologist? (view source)
- Question: What is "brass" in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What was known about steel in ancient America? (view source)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (view source)
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- Sorenson: "By 1400 BC, smiths in Armenia had discovered how to carburize iron by prolonged heating in contact with carbon" (view source)
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs" (view source)
- Sorenson: "Lumps of hematite, magnetite, and ilmenite were brought into Valley of Oaxaca" (view source)
- Source:Hamblin:Steel in the Book of Mormon:there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C. (view source)
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