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Calaveras skull
Calaveras skull Ca`la*ve"ras skull 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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- A calavera (Spanish – pronounced [kalaˈβeɾa] for "skull"), in the context of Day of the Dead, is a representation of a human skull or skeleton. The term...
- Look up calaveras in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Calavera (Spanish for skull) or its plural calaveras, may refer to: Calaveras, any of various skull-shaped...
- La Calavera Catrina ("The Dapper [female] Skull") had its origin as a zinc etching created by the Mexican printmaker and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada...
- The Literary Calavera or calavera literaria (Spanish: literary skull) is a traditional Mexican literary form: a satirical or light-hearted writing in verse...
- Cerro de la Calavera (also known as Mount Calavera) is an 513 ft (156 m) ancient plug dome volcano that last erupted 22 million years ago during the subduction...
- Calaveras County (/ˌkæləˈvɛrəs/ ), officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in both the Gold Country and High Sierra regions of the U.S. state...
- Hills and the newer developments around Calavera Hills. The Northeast quadrant also contains the Lake Calavera Nature Preserve, a 110-acre space containing...
- Calaveras Lake can refer to the following bodies of water: Calaveras Reservoir (California) Calaveras Lake (Texas) This disambiguation page lists articles...
- Holosiro calaveras is a species of mite harvestman in the family Sironidae. It is found in North America, specifically California in Calaveras county....
- The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault System that is located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Activity on...