LDS and non-LDS scholars agree that the Americas were peopled by Asians crossing the Bering Strait land bridge more than 11,000 years ago. A growing number of LDS scholars posit that the Jaredites were just a colony in their midst some 4200 years ago, and the same for the immigrant Israelites some 1600 years later. … Continue reading THE PEOPLING OF THE AMERICAS: LDS SCHOLARS AND THE BOOK OF MORMON