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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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- The Calaveras Skull (also known as the Pliocene Skull) was a human skull found in 1866 by miners in Calaveras County, California, which was presented...
- Calavera can also refer to any artistic representations of skulls, such as the lithographs of José Guadalupe Posada. The most widely known calaveras are...
- La Calavera Catrina ("The Dapper [female] Skull") had its origin as a zinc etching created by the Mexican printmaker and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada...
- up calaveras in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Calavera (Spanish for skull) or its plural calaveras, may refer to: Calaveras, any of various skull-shaped...
- ed. (2013). Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceaneras [3 Volumes]: From Calaveras to Quinceañeras. ABC-CLIO. p. 217. ISBN 978-1-4408-0099-3...
- the discovery of the Calaveras Skull, allegedly uncovered by a miner 130 feet beneath the surface of the earth. Eventually the skull made its way into the...
- Calaveras County (/ˌkæləˈvɛrəs/ (listen)), officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in both the Gold Country and High Sierra regions of the U.S...
- Current newspapers dedicate calaveras literarias to public figures, with cartoons of skeletons in the style of the famous calaveras of José Guadalupe Posada...
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by David Koepp, from...
- "Qué es una calavera literaria | Calaveras Literarias". calaveras-literarias.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020. "Características de las calaveras literarias...