Okay, just wow!!! This is a humdinger of an article if you are an anti-Mormon and are still clinging to your old Ed Decker era anti-Mormon claims that there were no such things as contemporary elephants in North America with the Jaredites (living north of where the Nephites/Lamanite groups expanded into).
We all know from the “bronze” trade out of North America and into the Middle East that the Jaredites were moving large amounts of a copper/silver alloy out of the Upper Peninsula impact crater area up the St Lawrence Seaway and into the Phoenician or Tyre/Sidon trade routes that King Solomon controlled. And from whence much of his legendary wealth was derived.
My guess is that, if the sunken Phoenician ships were surveyed for some of their wood samples, it would be found that they contained species from N. America and specifically the Great Lakes regions. It would only stand to reason. Time will show this hypothesis to be correct. Mind you, the forests of N Europe were likely also exploited for their virgin timber as the Mediterranean supplies were sapped (pun intended) by the Phoenicians and later the massive Greek and Roman fleets.
So this article proves that there were human to elephant interactions before and after the Flood when the Adena/Nephites immortalized it with their mounds. Possibly to memorialize their contribution in helping to move large amounts of earth in making their religious mounds and then defensive fortifications when times became tough as war settled in (as it is today).
I have never once bought those ridiculous assertions the curators put out there of the Adena hauling millions of woven baskets of earth just to make a mound of earth to memorialize a religious or political leader. Who has the time or energy for that?!? But to have a large mastodon sized animal pulling a log scraper from a borrow pit up an incline over and over to create a mound wall like a modern earth mover? Yep, this makes more sense.
And then the beasts of burden all got eaten - and probably memorialized as they dwindled and went extinct? This makes sense.
Quite frankly, I am surprised that this made the news; to the point that I just about decided to screen capture it or flat copy it onto the blog. Usually, stuff like this ends up getting buried or erased because it does not fit with the official narrative.
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