Book of Mormon Elephants In America!

Joseph Smith Benjamin Franklin and National Geographic all agree!
Elephants no doubt resided in America!

Critics of the Book of Mormon, declare the Book of Mormon false because there are no living elephants in America. Foolishly the critics say there is no evidences for Elephants in America. I have decided to lay this little myth to rest... Unbeknownst toBenjamin Franklin, he has played a great part in proving the Book of Mormon spoke truly about Elephants in the Americas!

Native American Legend Last American Elephant Killed 1730?

According to American Indian legend, their last oral record of a Mastodon killing was around 1730... So Ben Franklin having found a Mastodon tooth and Book of Mormon claims of elephants could well be so!

A Science Update 7/26/2014 confirms Native American legend that man and Mastodon seemed to live together.

A National Geographic headline reads:

Ancient Native Americans Ate Pachyderms; Site Challenges Theory of Where New World Culture Began

Bones of the four-tusked gomphothere turned up at an ancient site.

Published July 14, 2014

At a Mexican site known as the End of the World, archaeologists have unearthed a Native American first: the bones of two extinct elephant-like animals that sported four tusks apiece, surrounded by 13,400-year-old spear points.

Link to read more:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140714-clovis-elephant-archaeology-ancestor-science/

Science Daily Headline Reads:

Gone But Not Forgotten: Bring Back North American Elephants?

Paul S. Martin of the University of Arizona in speaking to Science Daily, "I want to do honor to my country by appreciating its true nature," Martin said. "We've been misled into thinking this is the home of the deer and the buffalo and the moose. That's true in historical time but in evolutionary time this land is the home of elephants, camels, horses and ground sloths."

Read More of the Science Daily Story

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990607154315.htm

Artifact Spotlight: Benjamin Franklin and the Mastodon Tooth

Why the Book of Mormon Is A Historic Record

Portion of the basement in Franklin's property prior to the building's rehab in the 1960s photo courtesy Independence National Historical Park

In 1953, an electrician working in the basement of a building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, unearthed a grey and white stone about the size of a large grapefruit. The basement was in a building that had belonged to one of the architects of American independence: Benjamin Franklin. The object was a fossilized mastodon tooth.

Ancient Mastodons and the Enlightenment

Sketch of extinct mastodon, with inset photograph of mastodon tooth found on Benjamin Franklin's property.

Drawing Sarah Jeppson (2005), photograph Peter Harholdt (2004)

The mastodon tooth, now preserved at the Independence National Historical Park, is an artifact of Franklin’s role in the social and scientific movement called the Enlightenment. Further, the tooth was a building block for the natural philosophers of the 18th and 19th century as they came to understand the process of evolution.

Ancient Elephants and 18th Century Rationalists

Benjamin Franklin as depicted in the frontispiece of: "Life of Benjamin Franklin as written by himself," edited by John Bigelow, 1875.

Franklin’s letters reveal that over his lifetime he obtained several samples of mastodon bones and teeth. He wrote to fellow scientists in the colonies and in Europe about the mysterious creature which did not live in America but whose bones could be found there. Franklin refers to these fossil fragments as being from "ancient elephants from before the flood", since the term mastodon was not in use at the time.

The Great Chain of Being

1579 drawing of the Great Chain of Being from Didacus Valades, Rhetorica ChristianaFranklin and others compared the mastodon’s features with similar fossils and living animals around the world. With this information, these natural philosophers proposed that the animal was "extinct". Identifying fossils as those of extinct animals undermined the classical and medieval concept of the universe known as 'The Great Chain of Being'. Thus, the mastodon tooth from Franklin’s property represents the scientific story of fossil mastodon bones in Franklin’s life – and Franklin’s world. This specimen represents a time when society’s basic values and beliefs were being restructured by Enlightenment ideas, and the tooth is physical evidence of Franklin’s role in transforming the prevailing view of the world. Franklin and others compared the mastodon’s features with similar fossils and living animals around the world. With this information, these natural philosophers proposed that the animal was "extinct". Identifying fossils as those of extinct animals undermined the classical and medieval concept of the universe known as 'The Great Chain of Being'. Thus, the mastodon tooth from Franklin’s property represents the scientific story of fossil mastodon bones in Franklin’s life – and Franklin’s world. This specimen represents a time when society’s basic values and beliefs were being restructured by Enlightenment ideas, and the tooth is physical evidence of Franklin’s role in transforming the prevailing view of the world.

Natural History and American Independence

Collage of the Signers of the American Declaration of Independence and a Mastodon Skeleton

The mastodon tooth is likewise a window into the social and political consequences being brought about by this evolving understanding of natural history. Recent scholarship by Paul Semonin reveals that during the 18th century the mastodon became a symbol of the new nation's spirit when patriotism and North American prehistoric nature became intertwined. The presumed ferocity of the beast led to its becoming an important symbol of national identity. This creature supported the idea of a grand history for the new American continent, while its extinction foreshadowed the destiny of American conquest over untamed wilderness.

Benjamin Franklin's 300th Birthday

Franklin Court, current condition and the location of the Independence National Historical Park

The mastodon tooth from Benjamin Franklin’s property is one of many cultural resources cared for by the Independence National Historical Park. Until 2008, Franklin’s mastodon tooth will be traveling the world as part of an exhibit created for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary (the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth). This artifact spotlight was submitted by Patrice L. Jeppson -- the historical archaeology consultant to the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Consortium.

National Geographic Story

Oldest Skeleton in Americas Found in Underwater Cave?

Eliza Barclayfor National Geographic News

September 3, 2008

Blogger Note! You'll have to do some skimmming, Elephants were not the only remains found! Enjoy!

James Brian Marshall

Deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico, archaeologists may have discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas.

Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, the female skeleton has been dated at 13,600 years old. If that age is accurate, the skeleton—along with three others found in underwater caves along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula—could provide new clues to how the Americas were first populated.

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The remains have been excavated over the past four years near the town of Tulum, about 80 miles southwest of Cancún, by a team of scientists led by Arturo González, director of the Desert Museum in Saltillo, Mexico (see map of Mexico).

"We don't now how [the people whose remains were found in the caves] arrived and whether they came from the Atlantic, the jungle, or inside the continent," González said.

"But we believe these finds are the oldest yet to be found in the Americas and may influence our theories of how the first people arrived."

In addition to possibly altering the time line of human settlement in the Americas, the remains may cause experts to rethink where the first Americans came from, González added.

Clues from the skeletons' skulls hint that the people may not be of northern Asian descent, which would contradict the dominant theory of New World settlement. That theory holds that ancient humans first came to North America from northern Asia via a now submerged land bridge across the Bering Sea (see an interactive map of ancient human migration).

"The shape of the skulls has led us to believe that Eva and the others have more of an affinity with people from South Asia than North Asia," González explained.

Concepción Jiménez, director of physical anthropology at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, has viewed the finds and says they may be Mexico's oldest and most important human remains to date. "Eva de Naharon has the Paleo-Indian characteristics that make the date seem very plausible," Jiménez said.

Ancient Floods, Giant Animals

The three other skeletons excavated in the caves have been given a date range of 11,000 to 14,000 years ago, based on radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon dating measures the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioactive isotope carbon 14.  According to archaeologist David Anderson of the University of Tennessee, however, minerals in seawater can sometimes alter the carbon 14 content of bones, resulting in inaccurate radiocarbon dating results.

The remains were found some 50 feet (15 meters) below sea level in the caves off Tulum. But at the time Eve of Naharon is believed to have lived there, sea levels were 200 feet (60 meters) lower, and the Yucatán Peninsula was a wide, dry prairie.
The polar ice caps melted dramatically 8,000 to 9,000 years ago, causing sea levels to rise hundreds of feet and submerging the burial grounds of the skeletons. Stalactites and stalagmites then grew around the remains, preventing them from being washed out to sea.
González has also found remains of other ancient elephants, giant sloths, and fauna in the caves.
(Learn more about how caves form.)

Human Migration Theories

If González's finds do stand up to scientific scrutiny, they will raise many interesting new questions about how the Americas were first peopled.Many researchers once believed humans entered the New World from Asia as a single group crossing over the Bering Land Bridge no earlier than 13,500 years ago. But that theory is lately being debunked.
Remains found in Monte Verde, Chile, in 1997, for example, point to the presence of people in the Americas at least 12,500 years ago, long before migration would have been possible through the ice-covered Arctic reaches of North America.

(Related: "Clovis People Not First Americans, Study Shows" [February 23, 2007].)

Confirmation of Eve of Naharon's age could further revolutionize the thinking about the settlement of the Americas.

This September, González will begin excavating the fourth skeleton, known as Chan hol, which he says could be even older than Eve. The Chan hol remains include more than ten teeth, which will allow researchers to date the specimen and gather information about Chan hol's diet.  "When we learn more about the [Mexican finds] we'll be able to better evaluate them," said Carlos Lorenzo, a researcher at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, an expert on the subject who was not involved in the current study. "But in any case, if it's confirmed that Eva de Naharon is 13,000 years old, it will be a fantastic and extraordinary finding for understanding the first settlers of America."

González said he and his team hope to publish the full results of their analysis after the excavation of the fourth skeleton. "We're not yet in the phase of research of determining how they arrived," he said. "But when we have more evidence we may be able to determine that."

Blogger Note: For you skeptics out there, heres the link! Best Regards!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080903-oldest-skeletons_2.html

Parting Shot.
Proof American Museums Have American Elephants Within Them.

The Mt. Blanco Mastadon

The second display room is dominated by a huge skeleton of the Burning Tree Mastodon excavated from Ohio.This room also contains the largest mold ever of the Waco Mammoth Death Site. This mastodon is the one that was found with living bacteria still in its intestines.

Our museum maintains that this is evidence that this animal couldn’t be 11,000 years old.

Museum Owner

Joe Taylor and grandson, Andrew

with human giant display.

 

Who Is JOE TAYLOR?

Joe Taylor is the owner and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum and associated companies. He was born and raised near Crosbyton at the Mt. Blanco community. As a young man he left the area for art school and a career in commerical illustration and advertising design in New York City and Los Angeles. During this time he volunteered at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California where the saber tooth cat skull which we reproduce is from. His interest was sparked by the rich local fossil deposits and a desire to find out the truth about fossils. The results of this interest are seen in the museum. Mr. Taylor is one of the nation’s foremost fossil restorationists and his work is sought out by individuals, museums and other institutions in this country and abroad.
 
 

Location of Mt. Blanco Elphant Museum

Lone Star Mastodon is Sold at Auction

On January 20, 2008, Heritage Auction Galleries sold Lone Star the world's largest four tusk mastodon for $191,200. The non-disclosed buyer placed his bid by telephone. The $191,200 sale price reflects Heritage Auction Galleries 19.2% premium over the $160,000 final bid placed during the sale. And Mt. Blanco's portion of the sale received after the final value fees is $128,000.

Because of mounting opposition to the sale resulting from both legal and other debts directly related to the skull, Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum filed for Chapter 13 Bankruptcy protection on Friday, January 18, 2008. By filing for Bankruptcy protection the museum was able to keep the mastodon in the auction which was in danger of being pulled from the sale. Because of the bankruptcy filing, the sale is still subject to the court's approval. However, the pre-auction estimate of the mastodon's value was placed at $120,000-$160,000 and since the Mastodon met those expectations, Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum does not expect any problems with completing the sale.

Dear Book of Mormon Believers

Joe Talor may or may not be a Book of Mormon believer. Howerver the work he is doing is paramount to proving the Book of Mormon an authentic history of the Americas. Already Joe Talor has proven the Book of Mormon spoke truly about elephants in America.

If you've the money to spare these days. why not donate to the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum to help Joe Talor futher his work of uncovering Americas ancient history.

Send Donatations To:

Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum

C.O. Joe Talor

124 W. Main, P.O. Box 550, Crosbyton, TX 79322

Phone (806) 675-7777 (806) 675-2421 (Fax)