As you probably also noted, Morgan’s previous post is about generating some interest in a conference on looking at the BofM from a military history viewpoint. I heartily encourage him to open this “new front” (couldn’t resist) since it brings to bear additional scientific disciplines on the study of the BofM exactly the way we try to bring all of the sciences to bear in better understanding the Bible.

This sort of info relates to my Radical Geography post. Can we put the future geography comments there? I’d like to keep this post open to Morgan’s theory, which is related more to Warfare in the BoM.

I will be taking a look at the site. I’ll be particularly interested in the timing being proposed. I want to see if it fits as an elaboration of Meso, as well as your premise of an alternative “main stage”.

Hagoth’s colony in the BofM has always seemed to me to require a location in the Meso theory that’s close enough for two-way trade and easy colonization, but which could become quickly isolated in a period of Mayan decline. Baja is a nice place for such a colony, hard to avoid if you leave by ship from the west coast of the Mayan lands and head north, and provides easy access to the heartlands of the later Aztec empire after the mayan collapse.

I know a proponent of a South American model places great emphasis on a similar Mediterranean climate, so I do find it intriguing. I guess one of the biggest “flaws” of American based theories is the fact that many animals mentioned in the BoM do not exist in the Americas, such as elephants, horses, and sheep. How does your theory account for this.

Did you see my 2 posts on the Malay theory? Here’s the theory and map, and here’s a bigger discussion of it.