“There’s a whole system of production of wheat and barley … It’s a specialized production of food. You have to know something to make flax (the source of linen), and especially in tropical climates. Grapes and olives … all these are cultures that are highly developed and amount to systems, and so the Book of Mormon is [incorrectly] saying that these systems existed here.” 

Dr. Raymond T. Matheny – BYU anthropology professor, “Book of Mormon Archeology” (Salt Lake City, UT: Sunstone Symposium, 25 August 1984), typed copy transcribed from a tape-recording.