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Big Bone Lick State Historic Site - Wikipedia
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Big Bone Lick State Historic Site - Wikipedia
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Big Bone Lick State Historic Site - Wikipedia
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Big Bone Lick State Historic Site - Wikipedia
Photo: Wikipedia
Big Bone Lick State Historic Site - Wikipedia
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Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. Mammoths are believed to have been drawn to this location by a salt lick deposited around the sulfur springs. Other animals including forms of bison, caribou, deer, elk, horse, mastodon, musk ox, peccary, ground sloths, wolves, black bears, stag moose, saber-toothed cats, and possibly tapir also grazed the vegetation and salty earth around the springs that the animals relied on for their diet. The majority of fossils found in the area have been dated to the Wisconsin Glacial Period (c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago). Human burials and other signs of human habitation have also been uncovered.

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