Dee F. Green

DEE F. GREEN has done archaeological research and publication on Mexico, Utah, Illinois, and Arkansas. Formerly an assistant professor of anthropology at Weber State College, he is currently an archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service. Green is responsible for soliciting and editing the articles in this issue by Sorenson, Leone and Coe which were to have formed part of a special issue of Dialogue devoted to "Anthropological Perspectives on the Mormon Culture." While that special issue did not materialize we are grateful to Dr. Green for the excellent articles which appear in this issue.

Articles

Book of Mormon Archaeology: The Myths and the Alternatives

Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 73–76
Church members, from some General Authorities to some Sunday School teachers, are generally impressed with and concerned about “scientific proof” of the Book of Mormon. As a practicing scientist and Church member, I am singularly unconcerned about such studies — in fact, when it comes to such matters, I am hyper-conservative.

Toward a History of Ancient America

Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 65–68
If there is no history of ancient Antarctica, there is a valid reason for it. Stone Age man penetrated every continent except Antarctica, and until modern times, Antarctica was unexplored

Recent Scholarship on New World Archaeology | Carrol L. Riley, J. Charles Kelley, Campbell W. Pennington, and Robert L. Rands, eds., Man Across the Sea: Problems in Pre-Columbian Contacts, and Cyrus Gordon, Before Columbus: Links Between the Old World and Ancient America

Latter-day Saints have long had an interest in pre-Columbian ocean travel. Americanist scholars, with a few notable exceptions such as Gordon Ekholm, J. Charles Kelley and a few others, have in the past either rejected…

Mormon Archaeology in the 1970s: A New Decade, A New Approach

Both within and without the LDS Church Latter-day Saint archaeologists traditionally have been regarded as scriptural archaeologists. Although this was prob ably accurate through the 1950s, in the past decade a new generation of Mormon…