THE MONSTERS OF ACAMBARO AND THE STONES OF ICA”

I found this interesting piece in the Appendix of the book “The Ancient Stones Speak” by David D. Zink.( jgcoleman)

“There are two collections of artifacts which the archaeological world has not accepted as authentic. If these collections were to become a part of the evidence for the planet’s prehistory, some radical revisions of the New World prehistory will be necessary. Some of the reasons for this rejection which Professor Charles H. Hapgood gave in connection with the Acambaro collection also apply to the strange stones of Ica:

1…The artifacts relate to no known culture
2…The Acambaro Collection represents the largest group of pieces ever found in such a small area ( Over 32,000 pieces in a few acres ) ; to a lesser extent the Ica collection presents the same problem (Over 11,000 pieces found in a relatively small area).
3…The Acambaro collection is without precedent in the survival of delicate work buried underground.; the Ica stones are relatively rugged, being carved of water-worn boulders.
4…At Acambaro the patina from earth salts usually acquired by buried objects is missing. This may be the result of the farmer who found them having washed all before delivery.

In addition to their sheer numbers, both collections share two other parallels: neither gives any indication of agriculture; both display giant reptiles ( of species usually thought to be extinct by the time of man’s appearance ) and human beings together. The idea that , in two widely-separated locations of the New World, two fraudulent collections with so many common, yet distinct, features , collections adding up to over 40,000 pieces , are both the result of fraud is truly overwhelming.

The pottery and figures of Acambaro are fully detailed in a monograph by Charles H. Hapgood , “Mystery at Acambaro” (1973).

About 1945 a German national , Waldemar Julsrud, then a hardware dealer residing in Acambaro, Mexico, was given a strange pottery figure by a farmer named Odilon Tinajero. Before the affair was over , Julsrud came into the possession of 32,000 objects of stone, pottery, jade and obsidian. Some of these are as small as a few inches in length; others, stone statues, are as much as four to five feet in height. No effort was apparently made by Julsrud to commercialize upon this bizarre collection.

In 1955 Professor Hapgood spent the entire summer analyzing the collection. He found dinosaurs and men in close association ,women being attacked by reptiles, and men and women in relations with reptiles that suggested an early worship of them. He also found pottery scenes indicating a climate very different from the present. Woodland and lakeland fauna are both represented; the present location is quite arid.

The reptiles seemed to be of the Mesozoic Era. Elsewhere, in “The Path of the Poles” Professor Hapgood has shown a possible basis for the anomalous survival of species in some geographical locations, despite the extinction of the same species elsewhere.

There was enough vegetable matter in some of the pottery to attempt radiocarbon dating. The results ranged between 4530 and 1110 B.C. A bit later Professor was able to arrange for a new test , a thermoluminescence, a system which gave two dates clustering around 2500 B.C

Three years after the publication of Professor Hapgood’s monograph, an article by Gary W. Carriveau and Mark C. Han in “American Antiquity” challenged the validity of these dates. In fact, the writers went so far as to suggest that the pottery had been fired shortly before its discovery. At the present writing Professor Hapgood has a book in progress which will question these conclusions.

Thousands of miles to the south, near the mysterious markings on the plains of Nazca. about 300 km south of Lima, there is situated an oasis town, Ica. Facing the public square, is the private museum of Dr. Jose’ Cabrera, a surgeon who practices in the local government hospital. In Dr. Cabrera’s museum are to be found some very bizarre stones. Carved upon them are cultural, geological and technological themes which call into question all of our conceptions of the prehistory of South America.

Indians are seen attacking long-extinct dinosaurs; one carving accurately represents the extinct Brontosaurus. Other Indians are carrying out heart transplants and Caesarian sections while the patient is helped by acupuncture anesthesia. In a map of the world, we see the original continent, Pangaea, which existed before the continents drifted away to their present configuration. Another stone shows an Indian studying the heavens with a telescope. During our visit, Dr. Cabrera told us that, among other celestial objects, the Pleiades were included.

In his own country, Dr.Cabrera is under attack by those who claim that his 11,000 stones are fraudulent, that they were carved for him. Cabrera himself showed me a recent feature from the Sunday magazine of Lima’s “La Prensa” which alleged that he had paid an Italian (I think this is a typo which should be “Indian” ) to create the spurious artifacts.
Photos of the Indian manufacturing them were published by “La Prensa”. Since Cabrera has apparently not sold any of these stones and charges a modest admission to his museum, such accusations seem to be pointless in terms of motive.

At this writing separate microscopic analyses have produced contradictory results. One investigator says the carvings are very old; another claims they are sharp and modern. One student of prehistory , J.R.Jochmans, claims that a Jesuit missionary, Father Simon who accompanied Pizarro along the Peruvian coast in 1525, saw these stones.

Both of these extraordinary collections deserve further objective analysis. . Their potential importance should call out( sic ) the most disinterested consideration among specialists .