Big Bone Lick State Park

Huge Bone Lick State Park is situated at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. The name of the recreation center originates from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. Mammoths are accepted to have been attracted to this area by a salt lick kept around sulfur springs. Other creatures including types of buffalo, caribou, deer, elk, horse, mastodon, moose, musk bull, peccary, sloth, and conceivably tapi additionally touched the vegetation and salty earth around the springs that the creatures depended on for their eating routine. The region close to the springs was delicate and damp making numerous creatures wind up stayed with no real way to escape. It charges itself as "the origination of American fossil science", a term which dates from the 1807 campaign by William Clark attempted at the bearing of President Thomas Jefferson. In Nicholas Cresswell's diary, dated 1774 to 1777, he records a visit in 1775 to what was then called "Elephant Bone Lick." In this record, Cresswell portrays finding a few bones of "tremendous size", and also tusk sections, and teeth—one weighing roughly 10 pounds. While he expected the bones were from antiquated elephants, the neighborhood local conventions asserted the issues that remains to be worked out those of white wild oxen that had been harmed by the salty water In 2002, the National Park Service assigned Big Bone Lick State Park as an official Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail Site.