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- Miller and Roper: "two distinct species of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times" (← links)
- Miller and Roper: "there are sheep native to America. The most common type is the Mountain Sheep, Ovis canadensis" (← links)
- Wikipedia: Bighorn sheep "crossed to North America over the Bering land bridge" (← links)
- Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them 'wild cows'" (← links)
- Miller and Roper: "Evidence of goats associated with pre-Columbian man also comes from caves in Yucatan" (← links)
- Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats" (← links)
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle" (← links)
- Wikipedia: Amaranth and the Aztecs (← links)
- Sorenson: The grain "Amaranth" in Mexico (← links)
- Sorenson: Linen and silk textiles in ancient America (← links)
- Question: Is prophecy only available for "after the fact" confirmation that God has acted? (← links)
- Book of Mormon/Warfare/Weapons/Cimeters (← links)
- Armitage: "It is suggested by de Ávila Blomberg that wild silk was used in Oaxaca in pre-Columbian times" (← links)
- Sorenson and Smith: "three types of wild barley have long been known to be native to the Americas" (← links)
- Source:Robert F. Smith:Some 'Neologisms' from the Mormon Canon:Sheum (← links)
- Source:Roper:Right on Target: Boomerang Hits and the Book of Mormon:FairMormon Conference 2001:Sheum (← links)
- Sorenson: "linen-like cloth made from plants other than flax" (← links)
- Sorenson: "At the time of the Spanish conquest, natives in Mexico would gather cocoons from a type of wild silkworm and spin the thread into expensive cloth" (← links)
- Head: "The indigenous American bee is the melipona (a stingless bee). It produces only about one kilogram of honey per year" (← links)
- Padilla et al.: "The maya codex Tro-Cortesianus shows drawings of bees and parts of honey combs" (← links)
- Question: Should there be no offices in the priesthood? (← links)
- Gardner: "a correct approach to a Mesoamerican battle required all three elements: king, litter, and battle beast" (← links)
- Verses in the Book of Mormon that talk about "horses" (← links)
- Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization" (← links)
- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (← links)
- Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (← links)
- Question: What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (← links)
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (← links)
- 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" (← links)
- 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" (← links)
- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode" (← links)
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Brass (← links)
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Gold (← links)
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Copper (← links)
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Silver (← links)
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Steel (← links)
- Book of Mormon/Metals/Ziff (← links)
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs" (← links)
- Sorenson: "Lumps of hematite, magnetite, and ilmenite were brought into Valley of Oaxaca" (← links)
- Miller and Roper: "Bones of domesticated cattle...have been reported from different caves in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico" (← links)
- 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" (← links)
- Question: Is the fact that Salt Lake City has many plastic surgeons indicative of Mormon vanity and concern with appearance? (← links)
- Template:Critical sources box:Mormonism and culture/Plastic surgery/CriticalSources (← links)
- Madden et al.: "by the beginning of the tenth century B.C. blacksmiths were intentionally steeling iron" (← links)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (← links)
- Roper: "archaeologists have discovered a carburized iron sword near Jericho" (← links)
- Sorenson: "By 1400 BC, smiths in Armenia had discovered how to carburize iron by prolonged heating in contact with carbon" (← links)
- Hoskisson: "the mistaken assumption that scimitars did not exist in the pre-Islamic Old World" (← links)
- Roper: "a strange double-curved weapon held in the left hand of the warrior figure on the Loltún cave relief might be considered a scimitar/cimeter" (← links)