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(paleontology, dated) A petrified human body, or of any portion of it..
It was in conglomerates of this kind that were discovered the famous Carib skeletons, known as anthropolites, that is, "stone men," one of which is preserved in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.
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Anthropolite means (paleontology, dated) A petrified human body, or of any portion of it..
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It was in conglomerates of this kind that were discovered the famous Carib skeletons, known as anthropolites, that is, "stone men," one of which is preserved in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.
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