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Title: Nature and science on the Pacific coast : a guide-book for scientific travelers in the West
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Pacific Coast Committee
Subjects: Natural history -- Pacific Coast Pacific States
Publisher: San Francisco : P. Elder
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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Features in History of Life on Pacific CoastPrehistoric Human Remains.—Among the mostinteresting west-American occurrences of actualhuman bones which have made some claim to an-tiquity are the famous Calaveras skull, certain stalag-mite encrusted human bones from Stone Man Cavenear Potter Creek Cave in northern California, andthe recently discovered human skeleton from PitTen at Rancho La Brea. The Calaveras skull is nowgenerally held to have come from a cave deposit, inwhich it may have been entombed for many years.This widely known specimen, monographed by Pro-fessor Wliitney, and ridiculed by Bret Harte in hiswell-known ode to a Pliocene Skull, is evidentlynot the skull that was placed in a mining shaft forthe purpose of perpetrating a joke on the miners.The remains in Stone Man Cave were covered with aconsiderable layer of stalagmite and may be veryold, but it is not possible to make certain of theirage. The specimen found at Rancho La Brea wasassociated with a fauna which is ma

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