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English
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Looking for Artifacts at New York's Hill Cumorah
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2005
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14
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2
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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50-51
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The following account of artifact hunting in the fields surrounding Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra, New York, is from a letter by Langdon Smith of New Haven, Vermont, and addressed to John E. Clark, professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University and director of the BYU New World Archaeological Foundation, based in Chiapas, Mexico. The letter has been slightly edited and is used with the author's permission. Mr. Smith wrote the letter in response to Dr. Clark's article "Archaeology and Cumorah Questions" (JBMS 13:1-2, 2004), which presents evidence that the archaeology of New York does not support the idea that book of Mormon peoples lived in that region or that New York's Hill Cumorah was the scene of the final battles between the Nephites and the Lamanites. - Ed. [journal abstract]