Mystery in Acambaro: Did Dinosaurs Survive Until Recently?

by Charles H. Hapgood

The Acambaro collection comprises hundreds of clay figurines that are apparently thousands of years old; however, they depict such bizarre animals and scenes that most archaeologists dismiss them as an elaborate hoax. The collection shows humans interacting with dinosaurs and various other 'monsters' such as horned men. Both Hapgood and Earl Stanley Gardner were convinced that the figurines from Acambaro were authentic ancient artifacts that indicated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932813763
• ISBN13: 9780932813763
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Old News

I think the book was published too late. Nearly every fact or theory in the book was already common knowledge. If the proof is in the pictures, the quality of the photos themselves or either the printing did not add any evidence to proving the theory.

hmmm

I think that to say that these images depict Dinosaurs is wrong. There is alot of of writing out about "Reptilians" though. perhaps they did/do actually exist. These images WERE carbon dated, so they are ancient, but I dont think that they depict DINOSAURS. These arent the only figures of Reptilians found on the planet from ~4500BC. Im sure some here have seen the Ubaid Reptile figure from Iraq?

Challenging, controvsersial, thought-provoking reading.

Mystery In Acambaro is a detailed and illustrated account of an unusual collection of ceramic figures discovered and assembled by the late Waldemar Julsrud in Acambaro, Mexico. If authentic, some of the figures would seem to indicate that dinosaurs survived in that part of the world into fairly recent times. This clay figures depict bizarre animals and scenes that don't fit neatly into traditional archaeology and paleontology theory, and therefore have been sumarily dismissed by mainstream scholarship as an elaborate hoax. But both Hapgood and Earle Stanley Gardner were convinced that the Acambaro figures were authentic artifacts, with very important implications for our understanding of dinosaurs and Central American human history. Highly recommended, challenging, controversial, very thought provoking reading.

Hapgood's long out of print book is now available

We owe David Hatcher Childress a huge vote of thanks for reprinting Hapgood's long out of print study of one of the most curious archaeological mysteries of the last century. Sometime in the late 1940s, Waldemar Julsrud, a German living in the small Mexican town of Acambaro, stumbled upon a strange clay figurine protruding from the earth. Within days, a barrow-load of similar clay sculptures was delivered to him by a man who was recovering dozens of them from the excavation of his basement nearby. Subsequent testing suggests they were made between 3,500-6,400 years before the present but correspond to no known ancient culture. This heresy is made worse by the strangeness of the figures, many showing humans co-existing with huge lizards and Godzilla-like dinosaurs. The establishment has shunned the case, but it deserves to be better studied. The story might never have become known if the case had not been investigated by Hapgood (author of Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings) and crime-writer Earle Stanley Gardner. The original pamphlet is only about 20 pages; half the rest are old (rather poor) photos of the enigmatic sculptures and half is a long essay by Childress reviewing evidence of dinosaur survival into the era of modern man.