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Calaveras Skull

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A human skull reported by Prof J D Whitney as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit lying below a bed of black lava in Calaveras County California It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found If it did it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type

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