Big Bone Lick: Mastodons and Monticello | Kentucky Studies

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Big Bone Lick Kentucky fossils mastodons mammoths bones Ice Age Thomas Jefferson Lewis and Clark American History Biology Monticello paleontology Pleistocene megafauna
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Big Bone Lick: Mastodons and Monticello | Kentucky Studies

Big Bone Lick in Kentucky is the birthplace of American vertebrate fossil studies. Large Ice Age animals like mastodons and mammoths gathered at the salt lick here, and their bones were found by Europeans about 300 years ago. Thomas Jefferson asked explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to bring him back fossils, and bones from Kentucky are displayed at his Monticello home.
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