Matthew Roper discusses the influence of the work of John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood on early Latter-day Saint approaches to the Book of Mormon.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Doris Stone Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
Doris Stone, Pre-Columbian Man Finds Central America (Cambridge: Peabody Museum Press, 1972), 45-46
- Scribe/Publisher
- Peabody Museum Press
- People
- Doris Stone
- Audience
- Reading Public
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THE EARLIEST MAIZE
Many Pacific coastal Guatemalan sites are located in mangrove swamps, as at La Victoria, and some show a cultural connection with one another as well as with interior communities. At Salinas La Blanca the Cuadros phase which began at the end of the Early Preclassic offers evidence of the earliest maize in this region. Cultivated foodstuffs included pod corn, as shown by cob impressions, alligator pears, and the plum called jocote. The two fruits were identified by their seed. Fields usually bordered estuaries or river banks. The diet was supplemented with deer, water fowl, fish, iguana, crab and mollusks such as oysters, mussels, and snails.
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