Waldemar Julsrud

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Waldemar Julsrud (born October 16, 1875 in Bremen ; † November 30, 1964 in León , Mexico ) was a German small parts merchant and hobby archaeologist . He lived temporarily in America during the Second World War and studied the Tarasken , Aztec , Toltec , Maya , the archaeological culture of Chupícuaro , the Incas and other Indian civilizations .

Chupícuaro culture

In 1923 Julsrud was a co-discoverer of the Chupícuaro culture with “Padre” Fray Jose Marie Martinez , in a town northwest of the Mexican capital . When some ceramic fragments were found near Chupícuaro , Julsrud hired personnel to dig them up.

This discovery drew the attention of archaeologists around the world . The fragments were first mistakenly assigned to the Tarasken , but later to a completely new indigenous culture, which is named after the place where it was found Chupicuaro . The Chupicuaro civilization is believed to date from around 500 BC. BC to 300 AD, about a thousand years before the Tarasken.

The figures of Acámbaro

21 years later, in 1944, Julsrud accidentally discovered the figures of Acámbaro only 13 kilometers from the Chupicuaro site while riding . The figures show different types of dinosaurs and are made of clay. None of these objects were found under archaeologically controlled conditions, the dating of the material is considered very controversial. The state of preservation of many specimens does not indicate that they are older. They are therefore generally rejected by archaeologists as not being authentic. On the other hand, they continue to be used as an argument in the field of borderline historical research and by creationists . In this regard, u. a. Reference is made to the dating of three samples to an age from 2700 to 1972 under the direction of Froelich G. Rainey at the then Applied Science Center for Archeology (MASCA) of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology using the then newly developed thermoluminescence dating method 2400 years BC Chr.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrienne Mayor: Fossil legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2005. ISBN 978-0-691-11345-6
  2. ^ Charles Hapgood , Mystery in Acambaro - An Account Of The Ceramic Collection Of The Late Waldemar Julsrud, In Acambaro, Gto., Mexico , Kempton, Illinois, USA, 2000
  3. ^ Charles Hapgood ( op. Cit. , 2000); Luc Bürgin , Secret Files Archeology , Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7766-7002-9 , pp. 87-88
personal data
SURNAME Julsrud, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German small parts merchant and hobby archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1964
Place of death Leon , Mexico