Presentation Given at the Ancient American Conference, Salt Lake City, UT March 31, 2011
Wayne N. May was born and raised in Wisconsin. He is a 36 year convert to the LDS Church and has served in four Branch Presidencies, three Elder Quorum Presidencies, Seminary Instructor, Gospel Doctrine Instructor, Veil worker at the St. Paul Minnesota Temple, and currently is serving as Gospel Doctrine Teacher of the Menomonie Wisconsin Branch, Oakdale, Minnesota Stake. His wife Kristine is active with Wayne in the archaeological discoveries of the Midwest. Together they publish the quarterly magazine Ancient American which has been in continuous print for sixteen years and covers the pre-Columbian Americas. Wayne and Kristine are the parents of seven children, and grandparents to sixteen.
Wayne is author of four books on the subject of Book of Mormon Archaeology in North America. They are entitled; This Land: Zarahemla and the Nephite Nation; This Land: Only One Cumorah; This Land: They Came from the EAST: and book four is This Land: America 2,000 B.C. to 500 A.D. Wayne gives firesides to members and non-members alike, wherever he is invited to present. He has been presenting information on the topic of North America’s archaeological data since 1994 which demonstrates how it applies to the Book of Mormon timeline.
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It is troublesome that May is interpreting the geography based on where he lives. He has failed to disclose to his viewers that his work can’t be true because there is no Sea West, west of Zarahemla (his Missouri).
It is likewise troublesome that he places BoM lands outside of the United States (into Canada).
May’s use of an uncorroborated letter in his presentations from J. Golden Jensen was challenged by the BMAF in January 2010. (bmaf.org/node/277)