What traces should Book of Mormon writing leave?

Moroni says he would have used Hebrew on a larger set of plates. Other passages describe people writing records and messages. Together they raise a real question about what script people used outside his circle.

You recognize the scale of recordkeeping while keeping Moroni’s statement tied to his record.

Yes. It says that people across the Americas used Hebrew for everyday writing.

Mormon 9 describes a choice about the plates. The passages about correspondence do not name an everyday script.

It shows that scribes were writing in ancient Mesoamerica. It doesn’t identify the writing Moroni describes, and it doesn’t tell us how widely people could read.

A local writing system can answer whether writing existed while leaving the language and literacy questions open.

Yes. A Maya inscription from the right period corroborates the Hebrew writing in the Book of Mormon.

Date overlap is one condition. The artifact would also need a securely identified script and context that support the specific claim.

Roman finds show that fragile writing can survive in some conditions. To estimate what should survive elsewhere, compare the writing materials, burial conditions, and the places archaeologists have searched.

You grant that missing evidence can matter and ask what makes the comparison fair.

Preservation varies, so finding nothing could never count against any proposed setting.

If a model predicts durable inscriptions at well-excavated sites, continued absence can count against it. Specify the prediction before weighing the absence.