I attended an Emergency Preparedness / Book of Mormon conference and these are some notes about archeology of the Hopewell culture.

• Located in the Great Lakes area
• Alma 62:20 – 24, At night the Nephities infiltrate the city. People are surprised on how they cannot get caught with the Lamanites sleeping on the other side but the size of the city is up to 4 to 5 miles wide.
• The people live by the lunar year which was about 16 months calendar
• Studies of the mounds show that the people had their knowledge of high math and use the same length and sizes as those used in Egypt.
• Lidar is a technology that can scan the ground and you can see down to about 6 inches and this is how you can see mounds and formations beneath the trees and bushes.
• Alma 49:20 talks about entrants place which matches the ecological sites. Alma 50:2 – four
• Every city had a source of water.
• Mossiah 2:7?
• For the mass amount of labor that was required to make these humongous ditches and mounds and walls shows how the use of the elephant could be valuable in transporting short amounts.

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