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John L. Sorenson. John Leon Sorenson (April 8, 1924 – December 8, 2021) was an American anthropologist, scholar and author. He was a professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University, and the author of An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon, as well as many other books and articles on the Book of Mormon and archaeology.
In the Book of Mormon narrative, three groups of people are stated to have migrated: Jaredites, Lehites (later divided into Lamanites and Nephites) and Mulekites. The Jaredites landed in what was later called the "Land Northward" during the time of the building of the "great tower."
Story is a sequence of events, which can be true or fictitious, that appear in prose, verse or script, designed to amuse or inform an audience. [1] Story structure is a way to organize the story's elements into a recognizable sequence. It has been shown to influence how the brain organizes information. [2]
Stonish Giants, engraving by David Cusick from Sketches of the Ancient History of the Six Nations. Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations "was the first Native-authored, Native-printed, and Native-copyrighted text" in what is now the United States; [3] Cusick published the first edition of Sketches as a 28-page pamphlet at Lewiston, New York, in 1825 [9] or 1827. [1]
A total of 15 passages were deciphered from the unrolled scroll. The first word to be decoded, the Greek word for purple, was detected in October 2023 and can be found within the newly interpreted ...
Van Sertima does devote a considerable portion of the book to interaction of cultures within Africa as well, with Chapter 7 and 8, titled "Black Africa and Egypt" and "The Black Kings of the 25th Dynasty” in which he explores the West and Southern African man's influence on the ancient Egyptian civilization.
America B.C.: Ancient Settlers in the New World was published in 1976. [1] In the book, Barry Fell makes the argument that both archaeological discoveries in North America and examination of North American native languages such as Miꞌkmaq reveal possible links to Bronze Age European cultures, which would point to trans-Atlantic voyages by these cultures millennia before the "discovery" of ...
One of the most enduring classifications of archaeological periods and cultures was established in Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips' 1958 book, Method and Theory in American Archaeology. They divided the archaeological record in the Americas into five phases, only three of which applied to North America. [ 1 ]