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Big Bone Lick
the cradle of American paleontology
By Hedeen, Stanley & Faragher, John Mack
- ISBN
- 978-0-81312-485-8
- Publisher
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2008
Big Bone Lick, designated a Kentucky state park in 1960, is known as "the tomb of mammoths." Fossil remains of other extinct species have also been found at this site: helmeted musk ox, two species of ground sloth, complex-toothed horse, mastodon, mammoth, and elk-moose. Hedeen (biology, emeritus, Xavier Univ., OH) chronicles the history of a place of scientific worth-both for a young America and for the new science of paleon...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
