The equus axinus was introduced by the Spaniards. I found some more quotes that I'm putting together, by the way.
The problem with the picture you're painting beastie... is it forgets all about the horse remains found on the surface down to 10cm. By Mercer and Hatt... which even according to you where "Modern Horse"... nor the "Misclassified dubiously identified "Ursus Bones". Even the Farms paper says this... that Mercer Classified them as Equus Equus. According to Farms they looked more like Equus ocidentalis and where on the surface down to about 10cm. And down to level 5. They even foot note that so you can verify it. ;)
Zak,
I have not been able to verify that the modern horse was found down to level 5. The only source for this claim is Sorenson's attribution to Schmidt. I have found other, pertinent, references to Schmidt, but none that make this claim. I have already offered citations from the Ice Age text that directly contradict this assertion, but that goes right over your head. Sorenson said it, so that's scripture to you, or something, despite his horrible history with sources.
We have "extinct Fuana" In the Plestacene age sediments. (VII - XVI) Carbon dating some where in this layer (VII) which was 2 meters thik has a peace of Charcoal at 1800BC so any remians found above this... which Mercer Did find and you admited where "Modern Horse" have to be dated from then. So again we are talking about who brought the horses that where on the surface to America? Was it the Spanish, or was it some other sea fairing bunch ? OR... where they here all along... surving the ice age?Your Job is to prove that as RAY titled his essay "Pre-Columbian horse in the Yucatan" was not viable from this data. Were the surface horses misclassified by Mercer as Equus Equus as Farms asserts? (Remember the dubiously classified Ursus bones in these layers?) ;)
Remember also we arnt talking about extinct Fuana in Layer 5 and below... we are talking about the "modern horse" remains that where found above Layer 5 by Mercer. In the Schmidt summary they say nothing about animal remains animal remains in the first 5 layers. Again its your Job to prove that those remains got here after the Spanish. So you must show where 1842AD is in the dirty. Pottery which is in Layers 1-5 dates to 900-400BC. Clearly Book of Mormon Times... so any horse remains mixed around here in these 5 layers would be after 1800BC. You need to look at all the digs ands see where these "Modern Horse" remains appear in the picture.
Zak, I am almost at the end of my rope with you. You take the phrase "pre-columbian horse" and pretend that means that the author is asserting the existence of a post-extinction, pre-conquest horse. That's why I specifically made you admit that, whether or not you agree with them, scientists categorically accept that there was no horse in the New World during the specified Book of Mormon time period, and when they use the term "modern" they mean post-conquest, and when they use the term "pre-columbian", they mean Pleistocene.
You do remember the years that Mercer and Hatt were excavating, don't you? Mercer - 1896 and Hatt - 1953. Studies in these caves has continued and further research, with improved techniques, have been performed since those dates. I have repeatedly shared those results with you, but you stick your fingers in your ears and say LALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
YOUR job is to show from some source other than Sorenson's summary of Schmidt that horse remains were found in Level V. Every single reference I've read says they were at the bottom of level VII.
