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CALAVERAS SKULL

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 968 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CALAVERAS See also:

SKULL

SKULL , a famous fossil cranium, reported by See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor J. D. See also:

Whitney as found (1886) in the undisturbed auriferous gravels of Calaveras See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

California. The See also:

DISCOVERY

discovery at once raised the still discussed question of " See also:

TERTIARY

tertiary See also:

man " in the New See also:

WORLD

World. Doubt has been thrown on the genuineness of the find, as the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of the gravels is disputed and the skull is of a type corresponding exactly with that of the See also:

PRESENT

present See also:

INDIAN

Indian inhabitants of the See also:

DISTRICT

district. Whitney assigns the fossil to See also:

LATE

late Tertiary (See also:

PLIOCENE (from the Gr. sr?eiov, mere, and xatvbs, recent)

Pliocene) times, and concludes that " man existed in California previous to the cessation of volcanic activity in the Sierra See also:

Nevada, to the See also:

EPOCH (Gr. E7roxij, holding in suspense, a pause, from E1rxav, to hold up, to stop)

epoch of the greatest See also:

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of the glaciers in that region and to the erosion of the present See also:

RIVER

river canons and valleys, at a See also:

time when the See also:

animal and See also:

VEGETABLE

vegetable creation differed entirely from what they now are. . . ." The specimen is preserved in the See also:

Peabody museum, See also:

Cambridge, See also:

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