Article Title

Fortifications in the Book of Mormon and in Mesoamerica

Authors

Keywords

ancient Mesoamerica, archaeology, ancient warfare practices, John Sorenson

Abstract

Archaeologists have consistently denied that ancient Mesoamerican peoples systematically practiced warfare. The Book of Mormon, however, reports a great deal of warfare and fortifications. Only in the last 15 years has a small set of experts begun to see warfare playing an important role in this area, although of course it has been common everywhere else in the world.

Recommended Citation

(1989) "Fortifications in the Book of Mormon and in Mesoamerica," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 9: No. 1, Article 15.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol9/iss1/15