Comments about ‘BYU helps unravel Mayan secrets’

If they prove to be market stalls, it will prove what I have always suspected: that Mayans were the forerunners of those noble Yorkshire folk!

Duh....

Why would one waste their time on something like this. Anybody in the transportation business could have told you that if you have a large body of people...your going to have to bring in supplies.

Sure glad I don't have a PHD in searcing for stupid things....

I don't know if this has been substanciated by archaeologists yet; but, there was a Mayan yarn about three Nephites setting up a Starbucks stand nearby the market area???

We allready have the BOM to tell us of early American life, this research is unnecessary.

Town Heathan [sic]:
Before you presume yourself qualified to judge the relevance of the work of trained archaeologists, perhaps you ought to consider how much you know about common measures of intelligence. For example, do you know how to spell the word "heathen"? How about the word "searching"? Do you know the difference between "your" (possessive pronoun) and "you're" (contraction of 'you are')? Do you know the difference between a question mark and a period?
More relevantly, did you read the part describing the previous theory of a redistribution economy verse a marketplace economy?

I think this is highly interesting, to discover what areas the Mayan were in and what type of industries they were involved in. Very fascinating! Having toured Costa Maya just a few years ago, there are many sites still do be discovered and explored and learn about. Certainly we can learn from past civilizations about what and what not to do in our own society for the better outcome for all.

I wondered how long it would take before the Mormon bashing began despite the fact this article has nothing to do with Mormons. Didn't take long on this strand.

I agree with "I wondered...", anyway I think this is just one small step closer to finding more and more tiny bits of evidence which will one day link the Mayan civilization to the "Book of Mormon" peoples. Over the course of time more and more tiny tid-bits are being brought to light, and this is just one more. I think their is wonderful research going on which will continually show more and more the reality of the situation. More funny things are some of the money's mentioned in the Book of Mormon are still comonly known to the Mayan decendants. There are a lot of things that are so unknown to the world which just cannot be co-incidence. So NaySayers Nay-Say all you want, it doesn't matter, wrong or right, Truth always will endure the test of time no matter what source it comes from.

Nice and touching article. BTW how is the escavation work in Missouri and upstate New York comming? Have we given up on that front or are we still holding hope?

i am not town heathen. but just cause some one cant spell (or one makes a typing mistake) does not make them unintelligent. wow you must be high and mighty and the most intelligent of all. get a life (besides telling people how dumb they are).

I think it is important to keep I'm mind that the Lamanites are not the "principle" ancestors to the Mayan people, but are simply just "among" their ancestors.

I am so stoked. We are on the edge of somethin' big bro'. I'm waiting in Cali for my calling and I am so stoked for my mission calling. Im hopin' I'll be going to Mexico to be there when it breaks.

CTR,
DJ

Good luck DJ YOU SOUND PUMPED. BRO I HOPE YOU GET TO GO TO MEXICO.

I would not have taken them to task on their poor spelling, grammar, etc., if they had not been so presumptuous as to declare the research stupid and a waste of time. True, their inability (and yours) to properly use the English language doesn't make them unintelligent, except in that regard. I had hoped that pointing out those mistakes would help them realize that they aren't in a position to criticize.

While this information is neat, it probably has very little to do with the Book of Mormon.

This relates to Helaman 7:10 where it says the garden of Nephi was by the highway that led to the chief market.

IWC: It's interesting that while pointing out others' mistakes you made you own. For example, you said verse instead of versus, and committed a style error by always refering to town heathan with the pronouns "they" and "their" in place of the more appropriate singular designations.

Town Heathan-
Do you have a PH.D at all?

This story does not have nothing to do with that BOM. Helaman or 3rd and 4th Nephi. Interesting but I agree with the other comments. Bad Grammer and poor story content.

Anthopology is a combination social and hard science.

It has its value, but it won't lead to much spiritual depth. It is a nice supplementary source for things that we already believe by other means.

And many of those means outside of science are quite valid, in my opinion. Subjectivity is our ultimate mechanism of discerning truth.

I wish there were more articles like this.