[...]... costs much lower than those at Big Bone Lick 13 Big Bone Lick Figure 5 William Clark noted that farm animals were attracted to the springs at Big Bone Lick (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) Because of market competition from the more productive saltworks, salt gathering at the Lick ceased in 1812.10 Even after salt collection stopped at Big Bone Lick, animals from neighboring farms... bearing the title Big Bone Lick The first text, a 1936 monograph by Willard Rouse Jillson, was sponsored by the Big Bone Lick Association The present incarnation of the association is the Friends of Big Bone, a nonprofit group committed to providing education and conducting research at the Lick Interested readers can contact the organization through its Web site or through the office at Big Bone Lick State Park... flat-headed peccaries 35 Diagrammatic cross section based on excavations at Big Bone Lick 36 Clovis projectile points collected at Big Bone Lick 37 Carolina parakeet captured at Big Bone Lick, and three warbler species 66 71 73 74 77 89 94 98 102 105 106 107 108 109 116 118 124 132 135 136 139 147 148 Table Mammal species excavated at Big Bone Lick x 143 Foreword In 1784, Delaware schoolmaster John Filson published... rent out a saltworks at Big Bone Lick consisting of more than 100 thirty-five-gallon pans, along with nine wagons and gear The “good old Kentucky salt” offered for sale in a 1794 Cincinnati advertisement may have been gathered at Big Bone Lick or, less likely, at one of Kentucky’s other licks.8 Salt making at the Lick continued during the first years of 11 Figure 4 Map of Big Bone Lick in 1830, oriented... fragment of an upper jawbone collected at Big Bone Lick 17 Detail from John Filson’s 1784 This Map of Kentucke, etc 18 Tusk fragment, molar, and femur collected at Big Bone Lick by Isaac Craig 19 French scientist Georges Cuvier 20 Meriwether Lewis 21 Elephant-like molar 22 Cuvier’s 1806 drawing of a mastodon skeleton 23 Fragment from a mastodon’s lower jawbone collected at Big Bone Lick by William Clark... collected at Big Bone Lick by William Clark 24 Skull of an elk-moose collected at Big Bone Lick by William Clark 25 Skeleton of an elk-moose 26 Skull of a helmeted musk ox collected at Big Bone Lick by William Clark 27 Sculpture of a female helmeted musk ox and calf 28 Horn core of an ancient bison collected at Big Bone Lick by William Clark 29 Sculpture of a Jefferson’s ground sloth 30 Sculpture of... sedimentation event, Big Bone Creek renewed its pre-event channel or carved an alternative course through the Lick The creek’s movements back and forth across the valley floor have carried away or repositioned many of the silt deposits The springs at Big Bone Lick push upward through the valley fill to reach the surface of the Lick, where they release their saline waters to flow into Big Bone Creek The brine... channel about ten miles southwest of the Lick. 9 The pre-Illinoian glacial age was followed by an interglacial span of several hundred thousand years During this interglacial age, the Big Bone Creek drainage system formed in the northern Kentucky region that had been drained by the preglacial Old Eagle Creek Big Bone Lick is located along the valley floor of Big Bone Creek, about three miles from the stream’s... site of Big Bone Lick, choked the northern portion of the Old Eagle Creek channel, and diverted the Ohio River southward around the edge of the ice 5 Big Bone Lick The boundary of the ice sheet was located several miles to the south and east of the Lick at the time of the glacier’s maximum advance (figure 3) Following the retreat of the glacier, the Ohio River cut its present valley near the Lick, and... other goods Such traders were likely the source of the iron kettles that were displacing the Indians’ traditional ceramic salt pans 9 Big Bone Lick In the autumn of 1755, Ingles and another woman were among the prisoners taken to collect salt at Big Bone Lick At the Lick, they made a daring escape from their Shawnee captors and hiked eastward in increasingly colder weather for forty days (Part of the . Paleontology—Kentucky Big Bone. 2. Mammoths—Kentucky Big Bone. 3. Mastodons—Kentucky Big Bone. 4. Mammals, Fossil—Kentucky Big Bone. 5. Fossils—Kentucky Big Bone. 6. Big Bone (Ky.) History. I cross section based on excavations at Big Bone Lick 139 36. Clovis projectile points collected at Big Bone Lick 147 37. Carolina parakeet captured at Big Bone Lick, and three warbler species 148 Table Mammal. 98 23. Fragment from a mastodon’s lower jawbone collected at Big Bone Lick by William Clark 102 24. Skull of an elk-moose collected at Big Bone Lick by William Clark 105 25. Skeleton of an