Natural historian Stanley Hedeen presents a comprehensive and accessible narrative of Big Bone Lick from its geological formation forward, explaining why the site attracted first animals, then Native peoples of the region, European ...
... first discovered at Big Bone Lick. (Big Bone Lick State Park) The current scientific name for Harlan's ground sloth ... elephant are worn quite flat and smooth, as if they had lain half buried in a water course, and worn down by ...
A discussion of mammoths versus mastodons with commentary on Thomas Jefferson's descriptions in his Notes on the State of Virginia and his interest in and study of his large collection of bones.
... Big Bone Lick in Paul Semonin's comprehensive study of mastodon fossils in colonial America, American Monster (2000) ... State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish ...
... first intended for the ministry, but he instead entered the Continental army, where he attained the rank of major ... BIG BONE LICK. Fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, in the Pleistocene Epoch, a great ice sheet covered an area ...
... Big Bone Lick , where Longueuil picked up the mast- odon teeth that would inspire Cuvier's theory of extinction . Now a state park ... first explorers found skeletons of elephants they said , found ribs of wooly mammoths , tusks . The bones ...
Describes how scientists pieced together information from fossil remains of mammoths and mastodons to trace the evolutionary processes of prehistoric man and animal.
... animals ( such as Bear Butte , South ... Bone Creek ' and ' Big Bone Lick ' for the famous mastodon bone beds in the salt marshes and sulphur springs along the Ohio River . These exposures ( now Big Bone Lick State Park , in Kentucky ) first ...