Is there any evidence outside the Book of Mormon of barley in ancient America?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The December 1983 issue of the popular magazine Science reported the discovery in Phoenix, Arizona, by professional archaeologists of what they supposed to be pre-Columbian domesticated barley. … This Arizona find is the first direct New World evidence for cultivated pre-Columbian barley in support of the Book of Mormon. Mosiah 9:9 lists barley among several crops that were cultivated by the Nephites in the land of Nephi, and Alma 11:7 singles out barley as the primary grain into which silver and gold were converted in the Nephite system of weights and measures” (Sorenson, “Barley in Ancient America,” 130).

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