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Mystery in Acambaro: Did Dinosaurs Survive Until Recently?
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I'm a fan of Hapgood's work ("Path of the Poles" and "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings") and was happy to see "Mystery in Acambaro" available in this edition, enhanced with material from David Hatcher Childress. Hapgood's assessment of the large collection of artifacts, which show humans interacting with dinosaur-type reptiles, is that the artifacts are genuine. He had carbon dating done on some of the samples (at the time, in the 1960s, this was a new technique) and came up with dates as old as 4530 BC, but with a wide range beginning about 1100 BC. Dating of a few atrifacts by thermoluminescence yielded a date of 2500 BC. Hapgood's theory is that they represent the work of a civilization that existed over time. That so many were found in one place is explained by their being carefully sequestered, apparently to protect them from some disaster that struck the society that produced them.

Hapgood researched these artifacts by visiting and spending time with their discoverer, Waldemar Julsrud, who found them on a hillside near Acambaro Mexico. Hapgood took Perry Mason author Earle Stanley Gardner with him, and together they inspected and photographed the collection, which literally filled Mr. Julsrud's home. Hapgood was well aware of the controversy surrounding these figures, which some "experts" has branded as fakes. It was easy to find reasons to dismiss representations of animals supposedly extinct millions of years ago interacting with humans. Hapgood suggests, as one theory, that these animals had survived in parts of the Americas, and had lived with humans. It is actually one of the more plausible theories, since many of the representations are accurate of known species that once existed. Unless they had great Paleontologists and equally great imaginations, it's hard to see how these ancient peoples came up with these figurines. Could these artifacts be proof of a very early civilization that we simply know nothing about? Could prehistoric reptilian animals have continued to exist long after they were supposed to be extinct?

The material from David Hatcher Childress is mostly a rehash of modern searches for unknown animals, with some interesting stories of sightings of creatures that don't match any known species. Particulary interesting is the search for the Thunderbird, a huge bird known to native Americans, and scattered modern sightings of huge flying creatures. There are credible reports of sightings that seemed to be pteradactyls, a flying reptile that is not supposed to still exist. These stories are readily available in other books and on the internet, and fascinating as these tales are, a better use of the space in this book would have been an update on what's happened to the Acambaro collection. I did a search on the internet and found high-quality color pictures of some of the artifacts at http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks-acambaro-dinos.htm. The color picures are wonderful, compared to the poorly reproduced black and white images in the book. It apears these figurines are in a museum in Acambaro today, preserved for visitors to see, but still controversial.

The creationists have latched on to these figures as proof that evolution is wrong. However, it seems to me to be no such thing. After all, there is the coelacanth, the prehistoric fish that was supposedly extinct milions of years ago but which has been found to be swimming around today, looking exactly like the fossile version from millions of years ago. So, why didn't it evolve? And yet, we know that other animals DID evolve. That is another question that does not tell us anything about the Acambaro collection.

I was glad to read that Hapgood learned of something similar in Peru - the Ica stones, a collection of stones with images of dinosaurs and humans found near Ica Peru. These are also controversial, but, like the Acambaro figures, have been shown to be old and the best evidence says they are not fakes. It seems worth serious consideration that these representations may show that humans and dinosaurs actually did exist together. I applaud Adventures Unlimited Press for making this material available again, but wish they would have provided updates on the artifacts and better quality pictures.

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