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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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