Big Bone Lick State Historic Site

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Big Bone Lick State Historic Site is a Kentucky state park renowned as the “birthplace of American paleontology” for its rich Ice Age fossil beds and salt springs that attracted prehistoric wildlife.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf state park
associatedWith American paleontology
Meriwether Lewis NERFINISHED
Thomas Jefferson NERFINISHED
William Clark NERFINISHED
containsFossilsOf Ice Age mammals
bison
giant ground sloths
mammoths
mastodons
country United States of America
surface form: United States
designation Kentucky state park
focusesOn cultural history of the region
natural history education
paleontology education
hasExhibit Ice Age dioramas
fossil displays
interpretive panels
hasFacility campground
museum exhibits
picnic areas
trails
visitor center
hasNaturalFeature forests
mineral springs
salt licks
wetlands
historicalUse hunting ground
salt collection site
knownFor Ice Age fossil beds
Pleistocene megafauna fossils
archaeological resources
bison herd
paleontological research
salt springs
locatedIn Boone County, Kentucky NERFINISHED
Kentucky
Ohio River Valley NERFINISHED
nickname birthplace of American paleontology
offersActivity camping
fishing
hiking
picnicking
wildlife viewing
operatedBy Kentucky Department of Parks NERFINISHED
visitedBy Indigenous peoples
early European explorers
naturalists

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Boone County, Kentucky contains Big Bone Lick State Historic Site