Acámbaro Figures
==Opening Statement - What is the artifact?==
The Acámbaro figures are set of approximately 33,000 clay figurines. Discovered in July of 1944, in Mexico in the city of Acámbaro, Guanajuato, these figures resemble dinosaurs. Some people follow the belief that these figures are physical and credible evidence that dinosaurs and humans lived together. This is then used to oppose other scientific dating methods. At the moment, there is no reliable evidence that can validate the figures as real artifacts.
What is the context in which it was found?
Waldemar Julsrud, a German hardware merchant, came upon a clay figure at the base of a a mountain called el Toro, in the state of Guanajuato. Julsrud, being an owner of several other artifacts, was quite familiar with most pieces present at the time. However, Julsrud had never seen or heard of anything like this. Wanting to know if there were more buried around the area, he arranged with one of his employees to dig up the area. All together, Julsrud and his employee discovered around 33,000 different figures. A large majority of these figures were reptiles very closely resembling Dinosaurs. The other figures were human figures. Some of these figures specifically had interaction between the two, such as a human riding on the back of a dinosaur.
What makes this a pseudoarchaeological topic?
After this discovery, Julsrud wrote a book called Enigmas del Pasado where he recounted specific details on the figures. Lowell Harmer, Los Angeles Times writer, wrote an article in March after visiting Julsrud and the sculptures. It was titles "Mexico Finds Give Hint of Lost World: Dinosaur Statues Point to Men Who Lived in Age of Reptiles." In the article Harmer posed readers with questions such as "Did ancient man live and fight with dinosaurs 100,000,000 year ago in Mexico?" Harmer then said that Julsrud dates this figurines to when dinosaurs roamed the earth. In this article, Julsrud says "only men of an age-old civilization, who knew the monsters, could have executed the ceramics and left them in the earth where they are being found today." This is Julsrud saying that the sculptures were so perfect that it simply could not have been made up.
Later that year, William Russell went out to Acámbaro to write about the findings.
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With multiple sources, deconstruct the pseudoarchaelogical narrative
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