Pixel42, I am not the one asking nor do I have any enquiries
I initiated this thread to correct misinformation and to ANSWER genuine questions regarding the ACTUAL beliefs and teachings of the LDS Church which were being asked off topic in another thread.
Any other matters should be the subject of other threads.
Evidently, it is an ACTUAL belief and/or teaching of the LDS church that pre-Colombian mesoamericans smelted steel, husbanded cattle, kept and used horses, and planted domestic barley and wheat; long before there is any evidence of their so doing, and in contradiction of the prevailing evidence that these things were introduced to the Americas by Europeans. When I was in middle school, in Ecuador (
Colegio American de Guayaquil), I studied mesoamerican lore with the same enthusiasm (and, sadly, the same accuracy) as children in American were exposed to "indian lore"). My teachers would have
loved to have been able to claim that the "people of Aztlan" had horses, and steel, before the
gringo showed up. They did not so, indicating (not proving) that my teachers, at least, knew of no evidence for such--not even so much as a colorable claim. My teachers were not an "anti-mormon" source--they would have leapt at any hint of the possibility that the
yanqui was not so much of a much.
In that light, please consider providing evidence (real, physical, empirical evidence) of the apparent anachronisms from the
BoM that have been discovered to have existed in the pre-Colombian Americas. It would be refreshing if such evidence were attested to by neutral sources, but, at this point, any evidence at all (please notice that claims made on an unsupported wall chart at a conference are
not "evidence") would be a starting point for inquiry and investigation.
Oh, yes: please do so, or refuse to do so, here on this thread, rather than in a PM.
Thanks!