The Calaveras Skull was a human skull discovered by miners in California. The skull was found in a layer of lava, 40 meters below earths surface. The skull supposedly proved that humans, mammuts and elephants had coexisted in California. Withney, a researcher who had suggested this theory even before the skull was discovered, presented his research findings in July 1867. According to him would this skull have been the oldest human remains found on the continent. However, it would not take a long time for the authenticity of the skull was questioned. The first ever fluorine analysis done on human bones indicated that it was of newer origin. Some of the miners also admitted that the skull was planted simply as a practical joke. Withney did, however, never waiver in his belief. More modern research has dated the skull to be around 1000 years old.
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