Red Line Traces Proposed Narrow Strip of Wilderness from theĬaribbean to the Pacific. As with all images on this blog, click to enlarge. The famous concrete relief map in Minerva Park, completed in 1905, gives tourists an idea of this monumental landscape. Its highest point, Tajumulco Volcano, rises 4,220 meters (13,845 feet) and winter snow accumulates in the higher elevations. Guatemala has some of the most variegated topography on earth. Ladder on Stone Stela from the Pacific Slope of GuatemalaĪnother good depiction of a ladder or scaffold is on Piedras Negras Stela 14 now in the Penn Museum. The original of this piece is in the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin Here is a good example from Bilbao near Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa. Ladders are mentioned in the text ( Alma 62:21,23). A good example from Piedras Negras is on display in the Museo Nacional. Thrones are mentioned several times in the Book of Mormon ( Alma 60:7,11). Kaminaljuyu Stela 10 in the Museo Nacional dates to ca. The crude figurine above is in the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin. Physiological characteristics often facilitate ethnic cleansing.īearded Figurine from Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa Note that three of the five decapitated heads depicted on the monument above are bearded. It was occupied in pre-classic (Book of Mormon) times. By European contact in AD 1492, almost all surviving native Americans were beardless or capable of growing only scant facial hair.īilbao is an important archaeological site on the Pacific slope of Guatemala near Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa, 60 air kilometers from Kaminaljuyu. That population passed through one or more genetic bottleneck events like the mass die-offs at hill Ramah/Cumorah. A heavily-bearded population once lived in Mesoamerica as attested by the thousands of beard depictions we see in ancient art and iconography. People tend to be less than satisfied with the answer "We just don't know."īeards are a strong response to the DNA question. The Church's Gospel Topics Essay sheds light on a complex biological subject but doesn't definitively settle anything. Naive Latter-day Saints misinterpret population genetics data in a misguided attempt to link Algonquins with Israelites. Critics slam the Nephite text claiming Lehi's DNA has not been found. Striking depictions of beards are included in the Museo Nacional collection.īearded Figure with Arms Folded on Early Ceramic VesselĭNA is a top Book of Mormon question around the world right now. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología The venerable Museo Nacional opened in 1930. What Richard Hansen and others have discovered at El Mirador, Nakbe, Tintal, and other massive sites in the basin has re-written early Maya history with potentially profound implications for the Book of Mormon. BYU's Ray Matheny began excavating at El Mirador in 1978. Museo Miraflores is scheduled to re-open in 2020.Īnother important museum dedicated to the Mirador Basin will open in Antigua in 2020. The enlarged space will showcase recent finds at Kaminaljuyu where the ancient city underlies much of modern sprawling Guatemala City.Īrtist's Rendering of Expanded Museo Miraflores Museo Miraflores is dedicated to the important early highland Maya site Kaminaljuyu (see the blog article " Kaminaljuyu"). Someone is spending serious money to do an extensive makeover just a few years after the original opening. That museum was quite new and very impressive when I visited at the end of 2015. We did get to the former Museo Miraflores only to find it closed for massive remodeling. We were hoping to get to the Museo Popol Vuh but didn't make it. We visited the Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología and the Minerva Park relief map, both in Guatemala City. We got to spend time with Richard Hansen, director of the massive Mirador Basin project and one of the most renowned archaeologists alive today. Both Elder Mask and Brother Amado are serious life-long students of the Book of Mormon. We visited with Rolando Amado, a retired agronomist soon to earn a degree in anthropology. We visited Elder Clate and Sister Carol Mask who are currently serving an oral history mission. Javier Tovar and I spent February 14th and 15th, 2019, in Guatemala City and Antigua.
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