Quote:Just because you don't see any 'traces' of this 'society' doesn't mean that it existed or that it never migrated.
It... kinda does though.
The society portrayed in the Book of Mormon is a fully-fledged Iron Age West Asian civilization, complete with metalworking, livestock, grains common to that era and that place, etc. If they landed in America, and they lasted as long as the book says - between 1,000 and 3,000 years, depending - even if they were all wiped out in some hideous act of genocide traces would remain; the livestock would go feral & be redomesticated, the grains would spread in the wild, the places where they mined metal would be obvious... you get the idea.
There is no evidence that an Iron Age culture landed on American shores any earlier than the eleventh century CE, and there's equally no evidence that there was a long-term colonization effort any time before Columbus. All the archaeological evidence from between 30,000 BCE and 1492 is all strictly Stone Age, none of it suggests any non-native animals like horses, cattle or pigs appearing before the Europeans, no sign of metalworking or wheeled vehicles... the evidence is just not there. There are remnants of a dozen different First Nations cultures that lived and died well before contact, and not so much as a single scrap of iron or bronze from the Nephites or Lamanites.
Nothing.
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