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Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson is the principal author of An LDS Guide to Mesoamerica and An LDS Guide to the Yucatán. He has had a lifelong interest in ancient cultures, especially from the Americas, and his first trip to Mexico was in 1999. Since then, Daniel has led friends on excursions to Central America and has given firesides about his research and travels to ancient Maya sites. He has spoken on archaeological topics at the Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum’s annual conferences. He served a mission in the Argentina Buenos Aires North and the Argentina Mendoza missions and now works as a digital artist and teaches at Northern California colleges.