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CALAVERAS SKULL , a famous fossil cranium, reported by Professor J. D. Whitney as found (1886) in the undisturbed auriferous gravels of Calaveras county, California . The discovery at once raised the still discussed question of " tertiary man " in the New World. Doubt has been thrown on the genuineness of the find, as the age of the gravels is disputed and the skull is of a type corresponding exactly with that of the present Indian inhabitants of the district
late
Pliocene ) times, and concludes that " man existed in California previous to the cessation of volcanic activity in the Sierra Nevada
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