Wayne May- Book of Mormon Geography & Archaeology II North America- Over 3-Hours – NEW-2020

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Evidences of an ancient population in America different from that of the Indians is evident. I shall now attend more particularly, to the evidences of an ancient population in this country, anterior to that of the present race of Indians, afforded in the discovery of forts, mounds, tumuli, and their contents. Before we proceed to an account of the traits of this kind of population, we will remark, that wherever plats of ground, struck out into circles, squares and ovals, are found, we are at once referred to an era when a people and nation existed in this country. A more civilized, refined, and given to architectural and agricultural pursuits, than our Woodland Indians.

The Book of Mormon, published in 1830, generally agrees with this thesis that, the Indians of North America were not the only people to inhabit the land and that a highly civilized race had lived there first.

The mounds and fortifications found here were built before they arrived by an earlier people of a Semitic stock. One important difference is that the Book of Mormon taught that the Indians were also Semitic but were physically and culturally separated from their former brothers five centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ.

The central civilization of the Book of Mormon is a group of Hebrews who came out of the land of Jerusalem. The Hebrews arrived by sea in ancient America about 590 B.C. —Wayne May