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Originally Posted by Ferris
Could these archeological findings support the Book of Mormon scientifically?
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A settlement in Chile this early could point towards their use of boats rather than the long hike from the frozen straights.
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Well, here's how I see things. For a long while, archaeology has painted the picture that the Americas were settled from people migrating across the bering straight during the last ice age. For a long while, the 'common wisdom' believed that this land bridge migration was the SOLE source of migration.
However, evidence like your Chile link has been piling up for decades. There is a great big pile of evidence of non-bering straight migrations. Certainly we can throw this latest discovery on the pile, and point to it whenever necessary.
It doesn't prove the BoM, it's not even very strong evidence for the BoM, other than it is a precident that people came to the Americas in other ways than across the land bridge during the last ice age.
LM