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Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that was taken to show that humans had existed during the Pliocene, a thesis that was later disproved.
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County in California, United States
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Calaveras Skull
1866 archaeological forgery in California
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Pliocene
Second epoch of the Neogene Period
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