Marshall J. Becker, an anthropologist at West Chester University, suggests that the Maya may have had a single category of “earth offerings” that included both the caches and human burials. Although there is no indication that the Anti-Nephi-Lehies broke their weapons when burying them, those weapons were considered “dead” to them. Breaking them would not have been surprising, since the reason for burying them was to make them unusable, which breaking would ensure. Even though this action was not, as described, associated with a building, it was definitely associated with the termination of an old way of life and dedication to a new one. It is therefore not strained to see the Anti-Nephi-Lehies at the same kind of liminal point at which their Mesoamerican neighbors made dedicatory caches.