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English: Drawing of the Calaveras Skull, an archaeological hoax that geologist Josiah Whitney believed to prove that humans had existed in the Pliocene age. |
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| Source | Originally published in Review of the Evidence Relating to Auriferous Gravel Man in California in the Smithsonian Report for 1899, pages 419–472, Plates I-XVI. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901. Octavo. Downloaded from http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hoaxes/calaveras.html |
| Author | William Henry Holmes |
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| current | 19:38, 25 February 2014 | | 503 × 539 (275 KB) | wikimediacommons>Soerfm | Color, levels, background |
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