<HTML>Hi,
I've had these responses from people:
1. Look at [
library.lds.org] - search for "archaeology" and
you'll at least find some interesting old stuff. (Or better, watch the
movie "Cat Ballou" where Lee Marvin keeps asking his Indian sidekick
th speak some Hebrew.) The web site does have some real creative
literature mining and is very literate in tone. The Mormons should in
any case have no trouble with funding- they could get lots internally
if the management sees fit.
2. This has come up before. You might try doing a word search for
"mormon" in the archives of some of the more active evo/cre lists and
see what turns up. I remember some controversy about a Mormon dig
seriously damaging a site real archaeologists were interested, and
some legal trouble about who gets access to limited resources like
digs. Scientists, apparently, want to keep the hegemony of "accepted
dogmatic theory!" intact and prevent truth seekers from getting their
hands on evidence, you see.
3. There have been digs by BYU anthropologists who concluded that the there was
simply no evidence to support this. The guy I read was Dr. Raymond T.
Matheny. I think he's still at BYU. A Google search on his name should
pull the reference.
Mike.</HTML>
