Garth Norman is President of the Ancient America Foundation (AAF) for professional and scriptural archaeology research, and is Director of Archaeological Research Consultants (ARCON Inc.). He began his professional archaeology career in 1965 and worked as a research associate with the BYU-New World Archaeological Foundation’s Izapa, Mexico project, completing the major work on the Izapa Sculpture project in 1976, which includes the Stela 5 Tree of Life stone. His most recent project has been exploring a natural temple center at the Parowan Gap in southwestern Utah where he has discovered an observatory and calendar link to Mesoamerica. He taught seminary for ten years, has graduate degrees in Ancient Scripture and in Archaeology/Anthropology, and has had a life-long research interest in archaeology exploration of the Book of Mormon.
